Speaker pendant hangers wire rope electrical box

[hbiss]

Install Wire Rope
1. For each speaker to be installed, remove the top cover and route
the free end of one of the 15 ft (~5m) wire ropes supplied in the
SPKA-ST-15 Safety Tether/Tie Down Kit up through the top cover.
Connect the attached hook assembly to secure the wire rope to the
speaker rigging point.
2. Attach the free end of the wire rope to the ceiling truss, adjust the
length so the speaker is at the desired height, and secure it using
the supplied Gripple® wire rope grip. (Refer to the supplied
instructions for proper use of the Gripple.)

Yes, they give you two pieces of cable but I don't know why and they don't say why. There is only one rigging point on the top of the speaker. Likely if anything is going to fail it would be that. Normally a safety attaches to a separate point, makes no sense to run basically a parallel cable. So I wouldn't take them supplying two cables to mean that you are supposed to use them- especially on those little speakers.

Besides, two support cables and two electrical cables all ty-rapped together has to look like a mess.

-Hal

 

[JFletcher]

If anything it's overkill. The instructions for that speaker only specify one hanger cable.

-Hal

Yeah. You could probably do a pull up on that with 2 safety wires.

 

[Smart $]

Yeah. You could probably do a pull up on that with 2 safety wires.

But it is not considered two. Only one is a redundant "safety wire". One is the primary suspension cable.

 

[jumper]

I think there may be a restriction on attachments for new members. Don't know for certain, though.

Nope.
First couple of posts for new members have to be manually approved by a moderator, but the post may contain pics/attachments.