Remote head wiring
- Thread starter mavrck
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- Tennessee NEC:2017
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- Semi-Retired Electrician
I don't know what you're talking about. What is a "remote head" and what do you mean by "eye it light"?
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- Tennessee NEC:2017
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- Semi-Retired Electrician
I don't know what you're talking about. What is a "remote head" and what do you mean by "eye it light"?
Also, could you update your profile to include your occupation?
Remote head off of a exit emergency combo fixture. For battery backup egress lighting if breaker trips on the branch circuit for the lighting
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- Illinois
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- retired electrician
The wiring between the battery and the remote head is an emergency circuit and must follow all of the rules for emergency circuits.
hillbilly1
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- Owner/electrical contractor
I haven’t done any lately, but the ones I’ve done in the past did not have separation between the input power and output, so a 300/600 volt wiring method would be required. I always ran emt with thhn conductors. Back then, they were incandescent, not led, so wire sized for voltage drop was critical. Usually the engineers would call for #10 on shorter runs, with up to #6 on longer runs.
No kidding , I was thinking we always pulled a 18-2 wire or some low voltage cable to the remote heads through the wall. The reason I was thinking it’s a class2 is because we were able to make up terminations with wire nuts and didn’t need a box . Just mounted the light straight to the wall. Pictured is the light I’m referring to 1watt max on a battery back up im thinking 12 volt. I figured I would be able to find this in code book easily but has proven to be a challenge. 
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- Illinois
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- retired electrician
There is Class 2 emergency lighting equipment, but I doubt that the output power from the typical battery emergency light is listed as a Class 2 output.
700.10 applies to the connections between the battery unit and the remote head, unless the battery output power is listed as a Class 2 power source. If there is a Class 2 emergency power source then the rules in 700.11 apply.
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