Advantages
Lower cost
Fewer parts break
Disadvantages
Less adaptable
In settings where the multicable never needs to change configuration and a lower cost is desired. Being unable to change the ends also prevents people who don't know that they are doing from messing stuff up.
Place: Schools, Churches, ect.
Places where multi-cable never needs to change should buy raceway and circuit boxes.
I personally hate mult...its heavey and awkward; twice as much so when the ends are on it.
I'm betting you never worked with 12 ckt. 12/37 Pyle-National Starline series multi-cable? Socapex-style is a dream compared to that!...I personally hate mult...its heavy and awkward; twice as much so when the ends are on it.
Is there any reason a solid breakout for multicable wouldn't work? Something like a joined soco connecotor tha doesn,t come apart.
I'm betting you never worked with 12 ckt. 12/37 Pyle-National Starline series multi-cable? Socapex-style is a dream compared to that!
At Production Arts in the '80's, we actually built some cables like this for a customer. We used a piece of aluminum conduit with male threads at each end. Then a coupling at each end, with a Kellems grip threaded in one end of the assembly for the trunk cable and a T&B 2-screw strain relief threaded in the other end to capture the bundled SJ single-circuit cables. The cables were butt-spliced inside the conduit assembly.
It worked, it was cheaper, but it was hardly elegant and it was a hump to move around.
ST
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