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I have been an avid reader (um....Lurker) of this forum for almost 3 years now. This is my first post. I guess its time to start giving back to the community that has inspired me.
I recently had a home built and the builder was gracious enough to let me run my own low voltage wiring prior to the drywall going up. I don’t think he realized I was going to go to the extreme that I did, but I wasn’t letting this opportunity pass me by. With the help of two relatives, we ran 9600 feet (almost 2 miles) of cable. I ran everything I could think about. Cat5, RG6-QS, intercom, whole house audio, speaker wire, etc. We did a very professional job and kept everything nicely bundled going down the main runs and just branched off to the rooms. It turned out very clean and we kept it away from all power sources.
I terminated everything into a 19' Chatsworth rack. So far I have the following punched down.
54 drops of cat5
54 drops of RG5-QS
3 source drops for fm antenna
5 source drops for CATV
5 drops for analog phone
The following will also be added to the rack when I get the systems to support it.
Source for Digital Satellite
Whole house audio
VoIP
Cameras
The rack also houses all my data equipment. Web server, mail server, routers, firewalls, cable modem, kvm, tape drives, etc.
What this allows me to do is distribute just about anything imaginable to or from any location in my house by simply patching it in. Its proven very handy so far.
Thanks AVS for helping make this possible. What do you guys think?
Front of Rack: http://webpages.charter.net/jackson....rack/Front.JPG
Back of Rack: http://webpages.charter.net/jackson..../rack/Back.jpg http://webpages.charter.net/jackson....rack/Plate.JPG
Ronnie Jackson
I recently had a home built and the builder was gracious enough to let me run my own low voltage wiring prior to the drywall going up. I don’t think he realized I was going to go to the extreme that I did, but I wasn’t letting this opportunity pass me by. With the help of two relatives, we ran 9600 feet (almost 2 miles) of cable. I ran everything I could think about. Cat5, RG6-QS, intercom, whole house audio, speaker wire, etc. We did a very professional job and kept everything nicely bundled going down the main runs and just branched off to the rooms. It turned out very clean and we kept it away from all power sources.
I terminated everything into a 19' Chatsworth rack. So far I have the following punched down.
54 drops of cat5
54 drops of RG5-QS
3 source drops for fm antenna
5 source drops for CATV
5 drops for analog phone
The following will also be added to the rack when I get the systems to support it.
Source for Digital Satellite
Whole house audio
VoIP
Cameras
The rack also houses all my data equipment. Web server, mail server, routers, firewalls, cable modem, kvm, tape drives, etc.
What this allows me to do is distribute just about anything imaginable to or from any location in my house by simply patching it in. Its proven very handy so far.
Thanks AVS for helping make this possible. What do you guys think?
Front of Rack: http://webpages.charter.net/jackson....rack/Front.JPG
Back of Rack: http://webpages.charter.net/jackson..../rack/Back.jpg http://webpages.charter.net/jackson....rack/Plate.JPG
Ronnie Jackson