DavidDaMonkey
Active Member
I'm going to be installing some NL4 speaker jacks at a few locations around a new black box I'm working on. I wanted to run my thoughts by all of you and see if any red flags came up.
I will be using West Penn 226 to come off of a rack panel that will connect to my amps outputs. I want to run this up to the steel rafters that are about 18 inches above the pipe grid. I will screw j hooks into the rafters to support the wire. I will then screw a handy box with a speakon plate onto the rafter and connect the wire into there. I will drop down some speakon cable that will stay tied up to the pipe grid to get to various speaker locations.
Do I need any sort of conduit or sleeve going into the handy box or can I run the wire straight into it? Are there inherent issues with attaching to a steel rafter? Is it a bad idea to just support the cables with j hooks without using conduit for the entire run?
The rafter is not a surface that anyone will be clamping to or hanging from.
I will be using West Penn 226 to come off of a rack panel that will connect to my amps outputs. I want to run this up to the steel rafters that are about 18 inches above the pipe grid. I will screw j hooks into the rafters to support the wire. I will then screw a handy box with a speakon plate onto the rafter and connect the wire into there. I will drop down some speakon cable that will stay tied up to the pipe grid to get to various speaker locations.
Do I need any sort of conduit or sleeve going into the handy box or can I run the wire straight into it? Are there inherent issues with attaching to a steel rafter? Is it a bad idea to just support the cables with j hooks without using conduit for the entire run?
The rafter is not a surface that anyone will be clamping to or hanging from.