Contact Wire question

beaumeri

Member
Hi,

This is a simple question to make sure I'm doing the right thing. I'm ready to install all my doors and windows wiring for all the contacts. I have not selected the contacts yet but I believe this is basic. My question is: Do you see aproblem using 18-2 Stranded for my alarms contacs?

I'm asking becasue a friend gave me left over from his commercial building installation. I got 12 boxes of partially used and some almost full boxes of this wire: Commscope S21ASSTR 2/18 AWG SHIELDED TYPE CMR (ETL) C(ETL) CMG 9700851 MADE IN USA JS48031.

From my research I believe I should be fine using this wire but I'm doinf this last check before procefing with the installation.

Thanks for your support.
 
Yeah, I think you're nuts. 22/2 wire is cheap. Sell the 18/2 here to someone on Cocoontech that needs it for something else and take the extra money and buy yourself a nice lunch somewhere.

18/2 will be tricky I think whether you plan on using B connectors or contacts with screw in terminals (especially with these).
 
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