Re: Idranet cable - not recommended

["David Gumbrell" <david.gumbrell@xxxxxxxxx>]

Wow. I just don't know what to say :-)

At least it solves the problem of getting mains rated insulation !

- David

On 10/6/07, JonS <semi.jon@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>   I have just run a test of Idranet over some 3 core and earth cable
and
> it works!
>
> Idranet has a 6 core structure (2 each for power, data and audio) so I
> dropped the audio and connected power and data. The reason being I
> really should have run a cat5 cable to a thermometer postion on the
> landing while it was more accessible so I can switch to Idratek
control
> of heating later. Instead of sweating to get it in I wondered if
> Idranet would work over the bog standard 3core and earth mains cable.
> It's a ~10m run and I connected an LPS and it just worked!
>
> I am not sure I'd recommend using this approach but it illustrates
that
> it is a fairly robust protocol.
>
> Jon
>
>
>


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