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Default Fire resistant electrical "cupboard"

On Thursday, September 4, 2014 4:10:15 PM UTC+1, Tim Watts wrote:
On 04/09/14 15:41, wrote:


Don't forget ventilation needed - vent through a metal tube to stop fire spread. Food cans wired together perhaps?


I don't think that will be a problem with maybe 1 PSU per cabinet -
should be able to lose heat by conduction.


Would need to be a bigger cabinet then.

But if it were, and intumescent vent is probably what I'd go for (self
seals in a fire).


How quickly after fire escapes do they block?


NT