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Cat 5 wire and Romex

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Name: joedadog
Date: April 9, 2006 at 18:17:15 Pacific
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Can cat5 and speaker wire run close to romex power wire? Will there be noise?


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Name: wizard-fred
Date: April 12, 2006 at 22:49:46 Pacific
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Possibly. It would be preferable that they be not be closely parallel. It depends how much switching transients on the romex.


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Response Number 2
Name: SkipCox
Date: June 2, 2006 at 20:21:30 Pacific
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It would be a good idea to run the cat5 thru metallic conduit to eliminate noise.

You will suffer some from noise running close to romex or any other household current source but, how much noise and whether or not it gives you a bad time is pretty much a crap shoot.

My response is generalized but you should get the idea.

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