Comment Re:300 wires with a conduit sawed off (Score 1) 874
The fire marshall came in and said "you can't have those low-voltage wires run through that conduit, that conduit is designed for high voltage wiring."
I think the either the fire marshall was on crack, or.. well.. he was on crack.
I'm an electrician, and alot of the specifications I follow doing work for our larger financial customers involves running almost all datacomms wiring in 2"/3"/4" pipe. The only thing we have to watch out for when we do the work is to make sure that we don't overfill the pipe. I don't know the numbers to pipe-fill with cat5/6 (our data group forwards the engineers specs to us), but I know that the pipe I've put up for data cabling is the exact same pipe I've put up for high-voltage wiring.
YMMV.
I think the either the fire marshall was on crack, or.. well.. he was on crack.
I'm an electrician, and alot of the specifications I follow doing work for our larger financial customers involves running almost all datacomms wiring in 2"/3"/4" pipe. The only thing we have to watch out for when we do the work is to make sure that we don't overfill the pipe. I don't know the numbers to pipe-fill with cat5/6 (our data group forwards the engineers specs to us), but I know that the pipe I've put up for data cabling is the exact same pipe I've put up for high-voltage wiring.
YMMV.
