Furniture Power

[Alwayslearningelec]

I can't locatre any other info on the furniture except this note. I will check furniture spec again.
According to this note and the word integrated power would you assume the furniture is prewired?

 

[James L]

Yes.

 

[Alwayslearningelec]

How does the data work in the prewired scenario?
Would the data cabling already be run within the furniture? Thanks

 

[James L]

Sometimes there is an empty chase and sometimes there is a patch cable hanging out of it.

Sometimes it feeds low from the wall and sometimes it feeds out of the top from a ceiling drop.

 

[Alwayslearningelec]

So if empty chase the contractor would run the cables? How we he terminate at devices already mounted in the furniture?

 

[James L]

If there's an empty chase, it could have an empty port plate, or the unterminated jacks could be installed already

 

[hillbilly1]

If the data is prewired, usually a MUTOA is used to connect it to. As far as power is concerned, an adapter whip is usually provided that plugs into the furniture buss. The walls have buss jumpers that plug in each section that has power.

 

[Alwayslearningelec]

If the data is prewired, usually a MUTOA is used to connect it to. As far as power is concerned, an adapter whip is usually provided that plugs into the furniture buss. The walls have buss jumpers that plug in each section that has power.

MUTOA? What is that? I never even thought of each section of furniture as obviously it couldn’t be brought up as one entire piece as shown lol..duh!!!
So get the power jumpers for each section but then I highly doubt data cables would be preinstalled. That wouldn’t be possible because then what would happen at each section?

 

[Alwayslearningelec]

Anyone have experience running dat cabling in prewired(power) furniture?

 

[hillbilly1]

The baseboard has snap in covers that can be hinged or removed in each section.

 

[Alexis Enrique]

Anyone have experience running dat cabling in prewired(power) furniture?

Done few, the one have done: they have a removable baseboard (4 to 5 inches high) through there the panel itself has a base were a flat wire having connectors snap in, (male or female) at one each side, when panels are attached together (the manufacturer and furniture installer) provide connectors to make the proper attachment between panels through the baseboard. The receptacles itself are snapped in to the base where the flat wire is, some have an slide option to be feed from different phase, (a,b,c) other are fix phase and interchangeable, normally have 3 set of #12 (computers) and on set of #10 (for printers) at the end there is a flex pigtail that snap to the base, through here you feed the entire furniture, if the unit land against the wall, then just a j-box with a 90 connector for the pig tail. There is an option of a power pole part of the furniture itself where the pig tail is coming from the ceiling. For underground installation the furniture installer should provide were the center will land, just bring up a PVC and there is room inside the panel for a 1900 box. All data run the same way.

 

[Alexis Enrique]

For the data you will need surface mount jack, drill the baseboard for wiring and attach the jack to the front.