Cat 5 wire and Romex

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Name: joedadog
Date: April 9, 2006 at 18:17:15 Pacific
Subject: Cat 5 wire and Romex
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Comment:

Can cat5 and speaker wire run close to romex power wire? Will there be noise?

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Response Number 1

Name: wizard-fred
Date: April 12, 2006 at 22:49:46 Pacific
Subject: Cat 5 wire and Romex

Reply: (edit)

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
Subject: Cat 5 wire and Romex

Reply: (edit)

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.
Skip

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