RE: Wiring idea

[Keith Doxey <ukha.diyha@xxxxxxx>]

I did similar when I wired my lounge 16 years ago.

It was a BIG mistake. It means you have unsightly loops of cable plugged
into the "unused" sockets. Not too bad if the sofa is in front of
it but if
it is on an empty wall it looks a real mess. It also means that if you need
3 cables to node A you have effectively lost both B & C for any other
purpose.

Also you are introducing extra terminations in the circuit. Every connector
will degrade the signal a little. The less joins the better. As to CAT5,
the
cable is so cheap its not even worse considering.

A single CT100 with the correct distribution unit at Node 0 can carry FM,
TV
and SAT.
2 CT100 will give you enough for the new Dual LNB Digibox or a conventional
digibox and a return uplink.

The only place I can see a need for more than 2 is the MAIN AV centre.

Just my 0.02

Keith


-----Original Message-----
From: ewenjc [mailto:ewenjc@xxxxxxx]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 13:40
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] Wiring idea


I was re-wiring coax in my lounge last weekend and I had a wiring idea,
which I wish I had thought of when I first wired the house.  I'm emailing
it, in case any of you had not thought of it.

If you don't know where TV, hifi etc are going to be it is best to run lots
of cable to lots of location (always a good idea to run lots of cable).  I
have three possible locations for the TV, Cable & HiFi and it needs
three
coax, so I'd need to run 9 coax to the lounge and 3 maybe 6 to each room
that might have a tv.  I did not have enought time to run this number of
cables and I'm not sure the joists would have survived that many holes.
Also the patch panel would be massive.

Since the TV can only be in one place in a room, I could have done the
following.  If the room has three outlets; run Node0 to A, Node0 to B,
Node0
to C, A to B, B to C and C to A.  Each outlet has three coax which can all
be used by patching together the unused outlets.  If location A has the TV
then patch 'Node0 to B' with 'A to B' at location B and 'Node0 to C' with
'C
to A'.  This will not work if you use bi-directional cable ;)

This should also work for cat5 but is less useful as devices using cat5 can
more easily be spread around the room.

Has anyone done this?
-Ewen





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