Electric.ie March/April 2020

ELECTRIC.IE • The Magazine & Website for the Irish Electrical Industry • 25 Precision Cables Prysmian FP Cables - It's more than just a product you are specifying B ritish Standard Codes of Practice have been developed to help designers and installers meet the requirements of Building Regulations for safety in the event of fire, this is where Prysmian’s FP leads the way. The Standards call for fire resistant cables to ‘standard’ performance or ‘enhanced’ performance. Prysmian’s FP range meets these requirements and has LPCB and BASEC approval to support them. The fire resistant FP Cable Range includes conduit wire and small wiring cables through to large armoured power cables for life safety and fire fighting systems. Our cable range includes: FP100 FP100 is the original fire resistant single core cable for use in screwed steel conduit. Suitable for use as part of a fore resistant cable system, FP100 can help solve the installation issues when cables to specification BS 7629-1 or BS 7846 are unsuitable. FP200 Gold FP200 Gold is a 'standard' fire resistant cable as defined by fire alarm and emergency lighting British Standards and the original alternative to mineral insulated cable. It is a tough, durable and ‒ Prysmian's FP range of fire resistant cables has been the market leader for over 40 years and continues to be the number one fire performance cable. Prysmian FP range was one of the key products specified by Axiseng on the Capital Dock development. dressable essential systems cable - easy to install and terminate. FP200 Gold meets the 'standard' fire resistant cable requirements of BS 5839-1 (Fire Detection and Fire Alarms) and BS 5266-1 (Emergency Lighting) FP200 Gold has excellent data and signal transmission characteristics which makes it ideal for voice alarm, addressable and networked systems. FP PLUS FP PLUS is the 'enhanced', hard skin, dressable fire resistant cable most commonly needed for fire alarm and emergency lighting circuits as defined by BS5839- 1 and BS5266-1. FP PLUS is approved by third parties BASEC and LPCB in accordance with the requirements of BS5839-1 and BS5266-1 for enhanced fire resisting cables. FP PLUS uses Insudite, unique to Prysmian, which provides a tough, damage resistant insulation that outperforms other commonly available soft-silicone fire resistant cables. FP600S FP600S is the ultimate fire resistant, armoured cable for power and control of emergency, life safety and fighting systems used in buildings. FP600S has been developed to meet the highest possible level of fire resistance for this cable type. FP600S also meets or exceeds low fire hazard requirements of LSOH cable. "Prysmian FP Cables - it’s more than just a product you are specifying"