--- Soren Harward <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon 08 Sep 2003 at 16:42:33, Gary Thornock said: > > I'm not sure whether current building codes require plenum wire > > for residential use or not, you'll want to check that out. (I'd > > suspect not, but it can't hurt to be sure.) > > Well, I'm just renting here through Fall Semester (my last semester > in single student housing -- yay!). The rest of the house isn't even > close to meeting modern electrical codes. All the power wiring is > two-wire. Nothing's grounded. Can't expect much when you're paying only > $190/month, utilities included. So I honestly don't care about > building codes because we're just going to pull a bunch of cables through > the ventilation ducts and hook the computers up to a switch.
In that case, you'll definitely need plenum-jacketed wire. The difference between plenum and PVC is that PVC emits toxic fumes when it burns. Ventilation ducts are about the last place you want to put that -- especially when the plenum wire isn't much more expensive. ===== PGP Key ID: 071B173D Fingerprint: ED30 B048 6833 56B4 28C0 CE52 F12B 884A 071B 173D __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
