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RE: C-Bus / Cat5e


  • Subject: RE: C-Bus / Cat5e
  • From: "Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>
  • Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2006 18:10:37 +0100

Not OTT when you chance using normal CAT5e and your building inspector
doesn't pass your install...

...of course the UKHA_D mantra is do it cheap. ;-)

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx]
> On Behalf Of Chris Hunter
> Sent: 29 April 2006 18:04
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] C-Bus / Cat5e
>
>
> but three-times the price for that seems a bit OTT ... ?
>
> Chris
>
>
>
> Jim Noble wrote:
>
> > Chris Hunter wrote:
> > > 'looking to buy plenty of cable ... C-Bus shop sells
> C-Bus cable at
> > > about 70GBP per 305m ... but I had in my mind that Cat-5e
> would come
> > > at a little over 20GBP per 305m ... so, just wondered what
people
> > > have
> > been
> > > paying ... and where they go for it !
> > > haven't worked-out yet how many runs to make, per postion
> ... some
> > > seem to go as high as six !
> > >
> >
> > CBUS cable has mains rated insulation. Normal cat5 does not, and
is
> > not supposed to be put in the same space (eg conduit; channel;
back
> > box) as mains cable.
> >
> > Jim
>
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