Hi all,
I am going through and repairing our school district's old inventory of Altman halogen fixtures. We operate over 20 Altman 65Qs and have a few old Altman 360Qs, many of which are original to our high school building which was built in 1976.
Our fixtures have a lot of wiring issues, all of the older ones need new wires installed. I have ordered a decent amount of new hardware for them, but before going through and installing these wires in all of the fixtures, I want to make sure they are safe.
I ordered 16 gauge PTFE 200°C wire, which seems to have a high enough heat rating and outperformed any of our other wires when I tested the wire insulation with an open flame. Will this wire be good for our use? We lamp all of our fixtures at 575w.
I am using our newer Altman 65Q units (from 2002) as my reference for wiring standards as they are much safer.
I will be installing Romex connectors on the back of each 65Q to hold the cable in place, have fiberglass cable sheathing over the leads, and replacing sockets as necessary.
Does this sound like a good plan for repairing these old fixtures? The aspect I am most concerned about getting right is the type of wire, which it seems like we have the correct wire this time (all of these fixtures were previously rewired with the wrong type of cable and that has since become blackened and brittle making these lights very dangerous).
Here is the link to the wire we purchased for reference:
https://www.remingtonindustries.com...wg-ptfe-stranded-10-colors-7-sizes-available/
Thank you,
Jeremiah
I am going through and repairing our school district's old inventory of Altman halogen fixtures. We operate over 20 Altman 65Qs and have a few old Altman 360Qs, many of which are original to our high school building which was built in 1976.
Our fixtures have a lot of wiring issues, all of the older ones need new wires installed. I have ordered a decent amount of new hardware for them, but before going through and installing these wires in all of the fixtures, I want to make sure they are safe.
I ordered 16 gauge PTFE 200°C wire, which seems to have a high enough heat rating and outperformed any of our other wires when I tested the wire insulation with an open flame. Will this wire be good for our use? We lamp all of our fixtures at 575w.
I am using our newer Altman 65Q units (from 2002) as my reference for wiring standards as they are much safer.
I will be installing Romex connectors on the back of each 65Q to hold the cable in place, have fiberglass cable sheathing over the leads, and replacing sockets as necessary.
Does this sound like a good plan for repairing these old fixtures? The aspect I am most concerned about getting right is the type of wire, which it seems like we have the correct wire this time (all of these fixtures were previously rewired with the wrong type of cable and that has since become blackened and brittle making these lights very dangerous).
Here is the link to the wire we purchased for reference:
https://www.remingtonindustries.com...wg-ptfe-stranded-10-colors-7-sizes-available/
Thank you,
Jeremiah