Is hospital grade MC required for lighting?

The NEC does not require hospital grade MC for the lighting.

What is hospital grade MC?

MC Luminary® HCF® is a hospital grade cable for patient care areas for LED and Fluorescent dimming, utilizing redundant ground per NEC 517.13.

What is green MC?

Green armor for easy cable identification in health care applications. Armor plus full-sized aluminum ground wire is the equipment grounding mean, second equipment grounding means is full sized insulated copper grounding conductor. MCI-A listed connectors required. UL Classified for Through-Wall Penetrations.

What is MC cable?

(NEC Article 330) – Metal Clad cables are assemblies of one or more insulated circuit conductors with or without optical fiber members enclosed in an armor of interlocking metal tape, or a smooth corrugated sheath.

Are hospital grade outlets better?

So, hospital grade receptacles are much more durable and are constructed to accept a higher level of abuse than general use receptacles. The hospital grade receptacle is required in areas of a hospital where reliable medical equipment function is critical.

What is blue MC for?

Southwire Blue Steel Armor Type MC Cable is suitable for use as follows: Branch, feeder and service power distribution in commercial, industrial, institutional, and multiresidential buildings. Fished or embedded in plaster. Concealed or exposed installations.

What is the difference between AC and MC cable?

The biggest difference between the two cable systems is that MC has full size ground wire while AC uses a combination of the jacket and a thin bonding strip or wire to function as the equipment ground. This type of MC Cable will have a continuous PVC outer jacket.

What is HCF MC cable?

MC Luminary HCF is a hospital grade cable for patient care areas for LED and Fluorescent dimming, utilizing redundant ground per NEC 517.13.

Can you run MC in conduit?

Type MC is permitted for services, feeders and branch circuits, indoors or outdoors, exposed or concealed. It may be used in some, but not all classified locations. It is permitted in wet locations and underground where identified for such use. A conduit bender is the only specialized tool needed for working with EMT.

Is Mc considered conduit?

Type MC armored cable can be installed in cable tray, racks, hangers, or as a cost-effective replacement for conduit and wire where specified per the National Electrical Code (NEC).

What does a green dot on an outlet mean?

Hospital Grade
What does it mean? Green dot receptacles are marked to designate they are Hospital Grade. Another designation of “Hospital Grade” or “Hosp. Grade” is printed on the back of the receptacle. First off, these receptacles must qualify for UL certifications that general use receptacles must also qualify for.

What makes a hospital grade receptacle different?

In addition to complying with the general use receptacle Listing requirements, hospital grade receptacles incorporate additional construction features and are subjected to additional performance requirements. These include grounding reliability, assembly integrity, strength and durability tests.

What kind of cable is hospital grade MC?

The “classic” hospital grade cable is actually Type AC cable. There is no “hospital grade MC” cable that I am aware of, other than the MC-Ap already mentioned. The “classic” hospital grade cable is actually Type AC cable.

Is there such a thing as hospital grade MC?

The metal jackets of AC and MCap are both grounding conductors and the hospital grade versions of these cables also have a green insulated EGC as well. Before the recent introduction of MCap there was no such thing as Hospital grade MC, only hospital grade AC was available.

What kind of cable is MC luminary HCF?

MC Luminary HCF is a hospital grade cable for patient care areas for LED and Fluorescent dimming, utilizing redundant ground per NEC 517.13. MC Luminary HCF is the luminary healthcare version of our standard MC Luminary Cable with the addition of the redundant ground required for NEC 517.13.

What kind of AC cable do health care facilities use?

There’s the standard AC cable and the HCF cable, designed to be the health care facilities cable. Both of these AC cables feature the ColorSpec ® ID System. The original AC cable, AC-90 ® is designed for most commercial, industrial and multi-residential branch circuits, services for power, lighting, control and signal circuits.