Thanks, Grog. I've dug a whole lot of holes...Thanks, Grog. I've dug a hole lot a wholes, but nobody ever offered me that bit o' wisdom.
Where's the champagne?
Fixing Multi-cable
- Thread starterDustincoc
- Start date
Where's the champagne?
Um... I would have to say that they've got you here, Derek! And I hope you meant colloquialism instead of colloquy - They're slightly different things! sorry! ... I wonder if anyone else knows why
was in quotation marks? Or are we the only ones?
Last edited:
Anyone got what exact text is pertinant? I've read it over several times and I can't find much about multi-conductors other than on the construction of breakouts.
You just HAD to go there, didn't you?Excuses are like butt holes Derek...we all have one and they all stink.
So nice to, finally, have [split infinitive intentional] a member of comrades-in-arm.
Hi, Grog12, thought we'd met.
STEVETERRY
Well-Known Member
Last edited:
If you want unsafe multi-cable I'll show you a picture of what we have in my space when I get to work tommorow.
It will make you cry.
STEVETERRY
Well-Known Member
The pertinent wording is the requirement for listed, extra hard usage cables.
Editorial from ST:
A. Without their jacket stripped back to expose the inner conductors, like your rig.
B. See table 400.5 for cable types that are extra hard usage.
ST
STEVETERRY
Well-Known Member
I'll be glad to look at it.
However, I don't think we're in a contest to see who can be least Code-compliant.
We all need to be working on fixing this stuff or getting rid of it.
ST
I would fix it to code or throw it away and replace it but we just don't have the money to do either. I don't even think I have the authority to take it out of service. I'm done after this summer(the down season) and even if I take it out of service, It'd be back in use just as soon as September rolls around.
Thank you for getting us back on track, STEVETERRY. I apologize for the grammatical diversion/detour/hi-jack.
Dustincoc, if all the non-code compliant multi disappeared tomorrow, as in sold for the scrap copper, would your venue have enough 12/3 SO (OW) to make single runs/hods? The decision isn't really yours to make, although you can vehemently suggest/demand, but really it's up to the venue owner and his/her insurance carrier. I don't see an inexpensive way of making your existing cable code-compliant, but that's no excuse for foregoing safety. Sixteen conductor cable sounds odd, so perhaps even the multi-cable itself does not meet the current code.
I, and ControlBooth, would never advise someone to purposefully do something to violate the NEC, unless no other alternative could be found, and even then, would use every precaution available. Take a lesson from ship.
Dustincoc, if all the non-code compliant multi disappeared tomorrow, as in sold for the scrap copper, would your venue have enough 12/3 SO (OW) to make single runs/hods? The decision isn't really yours to make, although you can vehemently suggest/demand, but really it's up to the venue owner and his/her insurance carrier. I don't see an inexpensive way of making your existing cable code-compliant, but that's no excuse for foregoing safety. Sixteen conductor cable sounds odd, so perhaps even the multi-cable itself does not meet the current code.
I, and ControlBooth, would never advise someone to purposefully do something to violate the NEC, unless no other alternative could be found, and even then, would use every precaution available. Take a lesson from ship.
I, and ControlBooth, would never advise someone to purposefully do something to violate the NEC, unless no other alternative could be found, and even then, would use every precaution available.
THE FOLLOWING IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION TO ANYTHING.
THE FOLLOWING IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION TO ANYTHING.
Hey I got lots of cable like that . Just its nicely strain relieved and heavily shrink wrapped.
I have a few questions about what are up to code?
Here is the first pic, The initial tie in
The very well color coded step down transformer bank
You dont really need soco either
Then there is dimmer beach
. Just its nicely strain relieved and heavily shrink wrapped. I have a few questions about what are up to code?
Here is the first pic, The initial tie in
The very well color coded step down transformer bank
You dont really need soco either
Then there is dimmer beach
Last edited:
Last edited:
I, and ControlBooth, would never advise someone to purposefully do something to violate the NEC, unless no other alternative could be found, and even then, would use every precaution available.
THE FOLLOWING IS NOT AN ACCEPTABLE SOLUTION TO ANYTHING.
That looks about likw what we have, except the wires are wrapped in Electric tape.
That even scares me, and that's saying something...
