Wiring help?

[Robin Laing]

Tim wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-04 at 10:26 -0600, Robin Laing wrote:
> 
>>In our city, plenum rated cables have to be used in anything that has 
>>any type of air access.  If you bring the cables out in any way to a 
>>patch panel, they have to be plenum rated.
> 
> 
> In one sense, that does sound a bit silly.  I mean, is the equipment the
> cables run into also made out of similarly fire retardent, and non-toxic
> fume generating, plastic?
> 

But in many cases, don't some rules seem silly?

The issue as I see it, if there is a fire, the cable cannot be a 
method of transferring the fire into the walls via the insulation.  In 
case a cable ends up having to run in a drop ceiling or there is a 
construction change down the road.  All the cables are the same standard.

-- 
Robin Laing