Two way communications system.

[Pinnie]

I’m installing a rath two-way communication system for a hotel fire alarm system. The cable required to be ran between each floors call station needs to be 2 hr fire rated which is very expensive. Is there a conduit/boxes/fittings that I can use that would allow regular wire to be pulled?

 

[Dennis Alwon]

I would probably cost you more in labor

 

[Pinnie]

I would probably cost you more in labor

It’s a straight shot up the shaft.

 

[hbiss]

Is there a conduit/boxes/fittings that I can use that would allow regular wire to be pulled?

What would that regular wire be?

-Hal

 

[Pinnie]

What would that regular wire be?

-Hal

I was thinking fplp.

 

[hbiss]

I don't think so. FPLP is just a plenum rated fire alarm cable. Nothing about it suggests that it will survive the extremely high temperatures it would see inside a conduit that is exposed to fire. It would melt. Temperature spec is 23F to 167F.

-Hal

 

[gadfly56]

Continuing from the closed thread, that CIC cable you found still has to be installed in conduit.