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@xxxxxxxSubject: 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@xxxxxxxSubject: [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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