Browse Forums Home Theatre & Automation 1 Jan 25, 2008 9:41 pm Is it really true that you are supposed to have an electricians licence to carry out any cabling in your own home ?
Even speaker, video & data ? I'm thinking of running these myself, but worried about the fines that may come my way Re: Doing your own cabling 2Jan 25, 2008 9:46 pm Sort of - But only because data mixed wna runniing across power can create major risks - ie something eats a cable, or it chaffs etc, and the data now has 240 volts in it, because the person who ran it did not know what they were doing
There is your answer. Steve Re: Doing your own cabling 3Jan 26, 2008 12:03 pm For any speaker/audio and video cabling you do not need a license.
Data is a little more grey, as you can run data (say Cat5E) in your own home as long as it is 'separate' from the actual data line(s) that are connected to the world outside your house, like your ADSL connection. I believe a router/hub 'separates' the line in to your house from any other cabling inside your house that runs to other data outlets... This is also why you cannot run your own phone lines in your house, because unless you have some sort of electronic routing device (PABX perhaps) at the first junction into your house that 'separates' the line in from the lines running around your house any work you do with phone lines in your house is on the live, 'connected-to-the-outside-world' lines... Even then, phone systems are a little more better off left to the licensed guys as if you have any issue at all the phone providers tend to want to blame anyone else for as long as they can before they are willing to accept any chance the fault might actually be theirs... 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... Re: Doing your own cabling 4Jan 26, 2008 7:54 pm Thanks for all the info guys. I may just well do my own speakers & video.
Just have to ask the builders for permission ! We are not really allowed on site due to all the new health & safety laws. 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 5175 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 5059 0 2021 |