Slack wires for strapping?

[82angelfan]

Has anyone ever been called out for using the light fixture slack wires as a support for fixture MC or flex?

 

[hbiss]

What do you mean by "slack wires"?

-Hal

 

[Tulsa Electrician]

If your referring to the tale of the wire for suspended ceiling. In Tulsa you can not. In other areas I have worked allow one K clip and one only with one whip if the MC is used as a fixture whip.

 

[Tulsa Electrician]

Located the amendment for the area I worked in. Notice it was for 300.11 (A) (2) Tulsa has no amendment and goes by 300.11 2014 NEC

 

[roger]

I think the OP is talking about safety wires to troughers and if that is the case there should be nothing wrong with strapping the fixture whip to it

 

[Tulsa Electrician]

Thank you

 

[hbiss]

I think the OP is talking about safety wires to troughers

I think you are right.

-Hal

 

[cadpoint]

Gezz it's been a while since I had to deal with that in the ceiling, last I remember
it wasn't allowed but spec'd to be supported independent from top to bottom in ceiling
with like ceiling tie wire painted or tagged/flagged.

 

[Tulsa Electrician]

I did some reading on the term slack wire.
Again, thank you.

One interesting find which I will talk with our AHJ about is the fact our independent support for raceway ( daisy chained fixtures using MC) are required not to be fastened to the grid which is a violation per NEC. In that case I would be able to use the Slack Wire for means of support for the fixture whip in the city of Tulsa.
I will get three interpretation on this. I could not find anything in there amendments addressing this.

 

[rambojoe]

As long as it is a wire dedicated for electrical fixtures. If you use wires that solely suspend the ceiling structure, that could be a problem