MC/BX/AC, please clarify. Also, what cut and bush do you use?
2024年11月14日 · AC is armored cable made with paper individually wrapping the conductors and a thin aluminum bonding strip which with the armor serves as the EGC. BX is a slang name for AC. Metal Clad or MC cable is different. Regular MC has a green EGC, MC-ap has a #10 aluminum conductor in contact with the armor to create the EGC.
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2024年11月20日 · 1) You can use _any_ MC cable up to a maximum of 3C+ground #8 AWG. 2) You can use an MC cable classified under the 'through penetrating products' category. When I did a search for 'through penetrating products' I found datasheets for various firestop assemblies, and those datasheets specified the specific MC cable they were listed with.
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2003年3月22日 · Other than the differences that become apparent when comparing AC and MC Cable in their respective code sections, such as the presence of an insulated grounding conductor in MC, support interval diffeences, uses permitted, etc. are there practical differences that are found while installing the...
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2024年12月11日 · Type MC cable shall be permitted as follows: (1) For services, feeders, and branch circuits. (2) For power, lighting, control, and signal circuits. (3) Indoors or outdoors. (4)Exposed or concealed. (5)To be direct buried where identified for such use. (6)In cable tray where identified for such use. (7)In any raceway. (8)As aerial cable on a ...
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2024年7月10日 · Is is permissible to sleeve MC cable with EMT? Such as running MC overhead and sleeving it down the wall to a box. Also, what does this mean? 330.108 Equipment Grounding Conductor. Where Type MC cable is used to provide an equipment grounding conductor, it shall comply with 250.118(10) and...
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2003年5月28日 · Can MC cable (14-2) be used to wire a residential garage? Article 330 says it can be used as open runs of cable not subject to physical damage. Rather than fish wires through walls, the MC cable would be run exposed to supply electrical outlets. Also, there is no seperate ground wire, just the bonding wire.
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2015年2月17日 · 330.30(C) allows for "Horizontal runs of Type MC Cable installed in wooden or metal framing members or similar supporting means shall be considered supported and secured where such support does not exceed 6-ft intervals." In applying knowledge from my interpretation from previous code cycles...
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2013年12月31日 · Conductors that are part of a listed cable assembly such as NM or MC cable are acceptable as long as they are a part of the assembly they were a part of. Remove them from the cable assembly though and they are not acceptable conductors by 310.10 - 310.104 unless they have required marking on them that is required by 310.120.
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2020年11月9日 · Conductors within Southwire Armorlite MC cable are THHN/THWN, so that tells me you're good for damp locations with the conductors. Just check the MC jacket. NEC states you can use MC in wet locations as long as it meets what the text says. NEC 330.10(A). What kind of connectors are you using which would not be acceptable?
MC Cable rated for underground non-PVC coated
2024年12月5日 · FWIW, UL Standard 1569 on MC Cable lists in Table 10 a variety of outer jacket materials that may be used, including CP, CPE, ETFE, ECTFE, NBR/PVC, Neoprene, PVC, LDFRPE, HDFRPE, TPE, and XL. No idea which if any of those are commercially available.