Updated Containment Sizing Calculator

     March 21st, 2013     Installation, Standards     Leave a comment
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Simon-Robinson

Available for download in the Technical Notes section of the Partner Area of the Excel website is an updated version of the Containment Sizing Calculator. This spreadsheet now has the separation distances from power for metallic data cabling included along with the containment size calculations. Separation distance calculations are covered in a Technical Note (click here to see the Technical Note) and to make the process easier, this has been added to the spreadsheet. Separation distance is dependant on the data cable classification, cable management system and the number of power cables in the vicinity. Both the Technical Note and …

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The Critical Factor of Containment

     February 29th, 2012     Installation     3 comments
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Paul Cave

Containment is such an important issue that I felt the need last year to author a whitepaper to highlight this, and I am now writing about it here again to express my concerns. There is a great deal of naivety when it comes to the impact of getting Containment wrong. It is an issue that can affect performance, timescales and cost.

What many people don’t realise about Containment is this: If you get it wrong, it can have a detrimental impact on the performance of the cabling. This can be a critical issue. I’ve experienced this first-hand on a …

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