Monday, July 6, 2020

How important are sequential faceplate labels?

My work affects yours. I'm a cable installer for large construction projects. Currently we try to maintain a serialized/organized faceplate scheme. For example, in the hospital we are currently working on, one patient room will have outlets 1-6, the next room 7-12 etc. With those groups being terminated in that same order in the TR.

However, it causes a lot of headaches trying to accomplish that and I don't see the benefit to doing it that way. I want to more or less run the cables from the outlets into the TR without worrying so much about keeping them sequential. Instead, dress it nice into the TR and label the faceplates with whatever port it so happens to get terminated in. This would mean one outlet could have U46 port 32 and U21 port 12 next to each other in the same outlet. To me it doesn't make a difference. As long as both ends are well labeled and neat, does it matter to you?



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