PVC Jacketed HCF MCAP® Type MC All Purpose Hospital Care Facility
12/2 AWG Copper THHN Insulated Conductors and Green Insulated Ground Conductor. Full-Sized Aluminum Equipment Grounding/Bonding Conductor. UL Listed. 600 Volts. Rated VW-1. Green Lightweight Aluminum Interlocked Armor is Part of Equipment Bonding/Grounding Path. Sunlight Resistant, Direct Burial Overall PVC Jacket.
Application
Southwire PVC Jacketed HCF MCAP® Type MC Cable is suitable for use as follows:
- Branch-circuit wiring for patient care areas of hospitals, medical centers, and other health care facilities (when installed in accordance with NEC® Articles 517 and 330, and mechanically protected per Article 300.4). Such areas include nursing homes, dental offices, clinics, and outpatient facilities. Use in hazardous anesthetizing areas is prohibited.
- Applications requiring redundant, dedicated or isolated grounding paths
- Suitable for Wet Location per NEC 330.10(11)
- Direct burial applications, embedded in concrete, and where exposed to cinder fills, strong chlorides, caustic alkalis, or vapors of chlorine or of hydrochloric acids.
- Fished or embedded in plaster
- Places of Assembly per NEC® 518.4 and theaters per NEC® 520.5.
- Installation in cable tray and approved raceways.
- Under raised floors for information technology equipment conductors and cables per NEC® 645.5(D) & 645.5(D)(2).
- Use with UL Listed MCI-A fittings.
Specifications
| Conductor | Ground Wire | ||||||||
| No. of Conductors | Size (AWG or kcmil) (mm2) | No. of Strands | Insulation Thickness (mils) (mm) | Size (AWG) | No. of Strands | Nom. OD (mils) (mm) | Nominal Total Weight (lbs/1000') (kgs/km) | Allowable Ampacity | |
| 584950 |
2
2
|
12 AWG
12 AWG
|
1
1
|
15
0.38
|
10
10
|
|
612
15.57
|
187
278
|
|
| 599111 |
3
3
|
12 AWG
12 AWG
|
1
1
|
15
0.38
|
10
10
|
|
644
16.36
|
217
323
|
|
| 644645 |
4
4
|
12 AWG
12 AWG
|
19
19
|
15
0.38
|
10
10
|
|
687
17.45
|
252
375
|
|
| 597999 |
2
2
|
10 AWG
10 AWG
|
1
1
|
20
0.51
|
8
8
|
|
647
16.46
|
200
298
|
|
Standards & References
Southwire PVC Jacketed HCF MCAP® Type MC Cable fully meets or exceeds the following requirements:
- UL 83, 1569 and 1063
- UL Online Product Guide Info - Metal-Clad Cable (PJAZ) ( www.ul.com )
- NFPA 70 (National Electrical Code), Article 330
- Federal Specification A-A59544 (formerly J-C-30B)
- IEEE 1202 (70,000 Btu/hr) Vertical Cable Tray Flame Test
- Listed for use in UL 1, 2, and 3 Hour Through-Penetration Firestop Systems
- REACH/RoHS-2 (Chemical Limit) Compliant
Construction
Southwire PVC Jacketed HCF MCAP® Type MC Cable is constructed with solid soft-drawn copper Type THHN circuit conductors (rated 90ºC dry), redundant grounding provided by an armor assembly comprised of interlocked armor with a bare aluminum grounding/ bonding conductor, and a green insulated copper grounding conductor. The insulated circuit and grounding conductors are cabled together and wrapped with a binder tape bearing the print legend. The bare aluminum grounding/bonding conductor is located outside the binding tape and has the same lay as the insulated conductors. Green Aluminum interlocked armor is snugly wrapped around the conductor assembly. A black sunlight resistant, flame retardant PVC jacket is applied over the armor. Print legend is included on the binder tape as well as the overall PVC jacket.
- Meets UL Product Category PJAZ (Metal-Clad Cable) and provides redundant equipment grounding conductors (as defined in NEC® 250.118) as required in NEC® 517.13(A) & (B).
- Simplified armored product application and installation.
- Reduces installation costs up to 50% over pipe and wire.
- Increased labor savings compared to Type AC HCF.
- Easy to identify green armor.
- UL Classified 1, 2, and 3 hour Through Penetration Firestop Systems: W-J-3037, W-L-3110, W-L-3113, W-L-3117, W-L-3120, W-L-3121, W-L-3160, C-AJ-3115, C-AJ-3140, C-AJ-3142, C-AJ-3145, C-AJ-3173, C-AJ-3202, C-AJ4065, C-AJ-4066, F-C-3038.
- Cable reverse wound on reel for ease of pulling and installation. When pulling from coils, pull from inside to ensure ease of installation.
- Armor ground path is approximately 3.5 times better than Type AC HCF Cable and is equivalent to a green insulated copper grounding conductor.