Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation Re: Doing your own cabling 5Jan 29, 2008 7:37 pm Quote: Steve's point about something eating through the cables and their conductors contacting each other is a good point, but from my memory of data cabling courses I've seen that wasn't the reason for not running data cable next to/across electrical cable - it was/is to keep any EMI (electro-magnetic interference) generated by the electrical cable away from the data cable (hence allowing the data cabling to be up to the Cat5E standard for data integrity). The reduction of the risk Steve mentioned would be more of an added benefit of sticking with this practice... Correct Rod, but we also see it as a saftey issue. Same for the telcos - if youput 240v onto a telephone exchange and it zaps a tech Same if you zap a person changing a PC data cord, and in the future - IMO - a hi fi component. I'd be checking what you need for hi fi etc, - Because the IT game has changed lots due to regulations since I started in it many years ago. Steve The DIY project can be broken into two major steps. Planning and Design and Construction. Both of these steps are as important as one another to ensure you give… 0 5149 Hi group, have some damage to the door frame and skirting board. It's a side door to the laundry area. Only has a security door. I had a termite inspection (note drill… 0 5050 0 1995 |