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Article: What technicians need to know about cable & the NEC: a common myth is that the National Electrical Code only deals with high-voltage electricity. Not true.
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- Security Distributing & Marketing
- Article date:
- December 1, 2007
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During my first year with SDM, I uncomfortably admit that in the mid-1980s, I was sent out with an installer to observe a burglar alarm installation in a small business. Although I didn't know it then, I later learned that the installer's practice of laying the wire on the top of the drop-tile ceiling, in the plenum air space between the true ceiling and the drop ceiling, was dangerous and prohibited by the National Electrical Code, NFPA 70.
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