Re: Adding a third keypad to a Caddx NX-8, wiring help requested!

["Crash Gordon" <webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Yah right...but wouldnt electrons traveling in a nice straight line in solid
wire (no spinners) get there faster hence they'd have a better chance of
beating the Pauly-ference. Also, there'd be less of tendency for them to get
all tangled up in them strands.


"Karl Magnus" <magnus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> Jim wrote:
>> Karl Magnus wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Perhaps not in this case, but on many systems by a certain mfg., using
>>>solid wire for the keypad run invites nightmares.
>>>
>>>KM
>>
>>
>> Care to tell us actually WHICH manufacturer, thinks there's a
>> difference between stranded and solid wire?   And why?
>>
>> I could understand, maybe a difference between twisted and untwisted
>> ...... or shield and unshieded .......but solid and stranded ?????
>>
>> If it's true, I'd really like to hear the manufacturers reason.
>>
>
> ITI Caretaker + and SX-V panels with alpha kp. The reason given from
> engineering:
>
> The electron "flow" in twisted wire has a better chance of "spinning off"
> or keeping away, inducted interference, where sold wire (not twisted) has
> no "spin" and picks up interference easier.
>
> I have seen installs where a very long keypad run with solid wire would
> work, but intermittently fail (false keystrokes) and replacing it with
> stranded/twisted never failed to fix the problems.
>
> Of course, they could be full of shit, but it worked. Every time.
>
> KM
>