Dragonskin Slays All Other Alternatives
The formidable, tenacious, fire-eating dragon doesn’t need to carry an extraneous shield or bulk up with armor. It’s built in. Other cables become bulky and less flexible because they require rigid and weighty metal conduits with heavy and restrictive wrapping. This compromises their practical usefulness, making installation time-consuming and expensive, especially when retrofitting in existing buildings. A number of jurisdictions in the United States require NFPA 72 Survivability.
DragonSkin is the only standalone RF communications cable that has been proven to successfully transmit radio frequency signals through a minimum of a 2-hour burn, continuing to operate after severe heat conditions and when suddenly cooled down with water.
It’s exactly what you would expect from RFS Technologies, the leader in industry firsts that last. RFS Technologies invents and innovates, introducing new ways and bold improvements that so often remain the best approach to solving problems.
DragonSkin installs like a regular cable to save time and money.
Beyond saving lives, owners, engineers, designers and installers will realize significant savings with DragonSkin’s overall lower cost of ownership. Unlike DragonSkin, every other in-building coaxial cable is merely compliant rather than certified. ONLY DragonSkin carries the official UL 2196 certification. Furthermore, all compliant-only products are either shielded in protective metal conduit extensively wrapped in fire-resistant materials or use special enclosures. Unfortunately, additional protective measures also increase cable size, weight and cost. Otherwise, these products couldn’t even reach the level of compliance, let alone actual UL testing. Worse still, added bulk reduces the cable’s bending radius, making installation more difficult, time-consuming, and expensive — especially in cases where existing buildings are being retrofitted.
In contrast, DragonSkin stays thin and flexible. This new RFS Technologies UL 2196-certified cable is only just over ½” in diameter, does not require conduit, does not include extensive wrapping and maintains its full bending radius. As a result, it dramatically simplifies, accelerates and reduces the cost of installing fire-resistant coaxial cables compared to non-certified options. The .54 inch diameter cable size also means that standard RFS connectors can be used. The cable’s red color immediately identifies it to anyone working on building wiring as a mission-critical coaxial cable.
UL Testing labratory Approves dragonskin as 2196-Certified
Standard 2196: Fire Test for Circuit Integrity of Fire-Resistive Power, Instrumentation, Control, and Data Cables.
DragonSkin During Burn Test DragonSkin during Wet Test
