Sorry Keith, badly worded on my part.
Will
10-15 metres of bell wire be a problem, or will there be too much voltage
drop?
I don’t think Ian Vine will be
pulling the cable himself, but he is dealing with me direct in his capacity
as
director of Integrated Media Installations – usually he only deals
with contract
builders – but I’m a bit of a special case J
Tim
-----Original Message-----
From: Keith Doxey
[mailto:lists.diyha@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 June 2002 19:52
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: RE: [ukha_d] IR
emitter
lead length
Is
there
something special about the current demands of your IR emitter that
warrants a
cable capable of carrying 20 Amps !!!
Use
a
bit of our old favourite....CAT5. That will easily handle the few milliamps
required
and being twisted pair will be more immune to interference that your pricey
cable.
Nice
to
see that the MD of QED still keep his hand in though :-)
As
an
aside, if your dimmer panels are in there and you have quite a lot of
lights
spending a lot of time dimmed, ensure you have some ventilation as it could
get
very warm.
A
ducted
bathroom fan controlled by a thermostat could help. Better to consider at
this
stage rather than finding out later even if you only put the duct in for
now.
-----Original Message-----
From: Timothy Morris
[mailto:timothy.morris@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 20 June 2002 19:28
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] IR emitter
lead
length
I’ve bought an
RC-5200 plus the Philips RF-IR unit (they do work together, and the Philips
unit is 25 quid cheaper).
I’m slightly
concerned as the cupboard I want to house the sky+ box is also going to be
home
to at least 2 dimmer panels, which could potentially interfere. The
blaster,
though not quite as powerful as a stock Pronto will certainly fire IR
across a
room, so I was thinking of mounting the unit on the ceiling opposite the
main
equipment stack so that I can operate the remote without pointing ala
Crestron.
If I want to attach one of the supplied emitter leads (double headed)
Xantech
styleto the same box and extend its lead, what sort of cable length can I
use?
It will be laid in the ceiling before decoration so I can use something
with a
low resistance per unit length – probably something like QED 79
strand as
the MD of QED is doing my “automation” type
wiring.
Tim
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