A large manufacturer in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin, who was remodeling the main plant needed to move equipment and upgrade the lighting from high-pressure sodium to metal halide lights. Roman Electric, a full-time electrical contractor at the plant, got the contract for hanging the 250 highbay lights.

When it came to hanging the new lights, the goals were to save time and money and allow for easy equipment reconfiguration. As Jay Haldeman of Roman Electric knew, hanging lights using jack chain can be time consuming and can create difficulties when relocating machinery. To overcome these Challenges, he decided to try CADDY? SPEED LINK.

"We actually hung a few lights using jack chain," Haldeman says, "and then we hung some using CADDY SPEED LINK and it was 5 times faster. From start to finish, it takes 25 minutes using chain and less than 10 minutes with SPEED LINK."

CADDY SPEED LINK is a cULus listed all-steel support system that carries a DIN fire rating of 30 minutes at maximum load (100lb/45kg) for 2mm wire rope and 60 minutes at maximum load (200lb/90kg) for 3mm. It installs without drilling and allows objects to be easily adjusted after installation.

"When we were trying to hang these fixtures, we were running into a problem finding the right size jack chain to hold that kind of weight. Each light is 60lb.," Haldeman says. "It would have been a special order to get the right size jack chain. CADDY SPEED LINK holds up to 100lb."

To install the lights, Haldeman and his crew hooked the wire ropes right around the I-beam. A convenient plastic sleeve kept the wire rope coilded up until they were ready to hang the lights.

"When we had to raise the lights," he says, "it took five seconds. In areas that we used the jack chain, it probably took 10 or 15 minutes to get the lights up to the new height. Haldeman added: "Thanks to CADDY SPEED LINK, the installation went quickly and reconfiguring the equipment was not a challenge. It's all we'll use now."

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