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Micc or FP200 cable in chapels or churches ?

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Hello, looking for an answer to who decides if a chapel / church needs to wired in MICC cable or will FP200 be adequate ? I appreciate it should be fire resistant and MICC is smaller and looks great if installed properly , but I cant find any guidance anywhere 

  • 0 in reply to Andrew P Jones

    The London Post Office Tower had 21 miles of M.I. installed.

  • 0 in reply to AJJewsbury

    M.I.C.C. with a plastic over sheath would solve that issue if necessary. But the problem would not exist with vertical cables.

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    As an aside, why PF200 (i.e. BS 7629 or "fire alarm") cables for ordinary lighting/power circuits which only have a thin "screen" rather than say BS 8436 ones that have a thicker shield that's much more suitable for handling earth fault currents. Both are normally LSF etc. and the fire integrity characteristics of FP aren't really needed for ordinary lighting/power.

       - Andy.

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    Re: why PF200 cables for ordinary lighting/power circuits - back in the 70s, Pirelli made a cable, then called PX (I think) physically like FP200, but a tuff but not zero-halogen LSF, and the insulation was pvc, used where the physical characteristics were preferred.  It and FP2 I believe both have an earth conductor, that makes contact with the foil of the sheath. 

    Andrew P. Jones 

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