Next door is the subject of a six-digit renovation. In the skip there is an left-over bit of cable, red in colour, oval in section. On examination it has two sheathed cores and an earth like ordinary T&E which look to be wrapped in a metal foil, the red sheath being of constant thickness rather than moulded to what's underneath. Does anyone recognise this description and what would you use this for?
Fireproof emergency lighting cable?
AWEM
Another one rummaging in skips, find anything useful?
All I can think of is Pirelli FP
No, I ought to be throwing most of the stuff I'm saving "because it might be useful one day" into a skip
Not very different to 1.0/2.5 T&E. The cores were somewhere about this size - didn't look too close.
Looks like the top one on
I now need to write out 100 times "you have not got a use for this and never will"
If the cores were twisted I'd guess audio, possibly digital audio.
If untwisted, possibly it's for a fire alarm system. Red also suggests fire alarm.
Owain
Let the rest of us know where.
Look on the bright side, if your house ever burns down, you'll be able to rummage through the ashes and triumphantly retrieve an intact length of fire alarm cable.
Owain
Fire alarm cable?
Plenty of that at work, but it's round.
Oh I dunno - it does say " Superb voice and data transmission characteristics."
:-)
Freecycle is good for that. You know you're not really throwing it away, it's just going into someone else's shed :-)
Spunds like Pirelli FP200 or similar.It is a fire retardent cable used for fire alarms and elergency lighting circuits generally.
Delta Firetuf or Pirelli FP200 . and it's oval coz somebody stood on it! IMHO
In message , Tony Bryer writes
Well since it "incorporates an earthed metallic screen" there are a number of things you could use it for besides fire alarms.
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