After months of construction it's time to get started on all the wiring. I'm excited to pull all the Cat6, RG6QS and speaker wire as this'll be the third house I've wired. Having never done alarm pre-wiring before I decided to contract that part of the work out.
My problem now is that both my alarm installer and my backup installer have both bailed on me and I need to get the alarm pre-wire done this weekend. This means that I'm going to have to do it all and with no experience with alarm stuff I'm worried about mistakes.
Right now I just want to get wire to the locations needed (before the drywall goes up and makes that much more difficult). I'll get a professional to terminate everything properly later.
My top priority is the wiring for the window/door contacts. I believe I just need to pull the wire from the equipment room to each location (22/2 wire correct?) and coil it up by each window/door. But if I have 3 windows in a row do I need to homerun a wire for each one or can I splice the wires together? (I'm ok if the alarm reports that a kitchen window is open; I don't care to know which one -- I'll just look).
Likewise I was going to have the alarm guy pre-wire for Somfy blinds. This I'm not even sure what kind of wire to pull (low voltage, but what?) I assume I just pull those to one (close) location and let the electrician handle the rest when the time comes.
Thanks for any advice,
-Mark
My problem now is that both my alarm installer and my backup installer have both bailed on me and I need to get the alarm pre-wire done this weekend. This means that I'm going to have to do it all and with no experience with alarm stuff I'm worried about mistakes.
Right now I just want to get wire to the locations needed (before the drywall goes up and makes that much more difficult). I'll get a professional to terminate everything properly later.
My top priority is the wiring for the window/door contacts. I believe I just need to pull the wire from the equipment room to each location (22/2 wire correct?) and coil it up by each window/door. But if I have 3 windows in a row do I need to homerun a wire for each one or can I splice the wires together? (I'm ok if the alarm reports that a kitchen window is open; I don't care to know which one -- I'll just look).
Likewise I was going to have the alarm guy pre-wire for Somfy blinds. This I'm not even sure what kind of wire to pull (low voltage, but what?) I assume I just pull those to one (close) location and let the electrician handle the rest when the time comes.
Thanks for any advice,
-Mark