IVB
Senior Member
Is there a "best practice" for the following?
A) Location of Main Elk board.
I have 2 options.
1) (Current plan) on main floor, in the media closet. Currently also has 2 PCs, a 3805, Denon3805, ZPR68, EXP9 zone expander, 5 amps, and 1 DirecTV STB(soon to be 2). Not a secured location, but it is inside the house.
2) Current location of expander cabinet, in the crawlspace. Semi-accessible from the outside, but I can put locks and sensors up to detect intrusion.
B ) Wiring Location for Smoke/Heat Detectors
2 options are:
1) Run wiring to mainzone, but as you see above there's already a lot of wires there.
2) (current plan) run wiring to secondary zone, which is what i've been trying to do.
At this point, i'm going to make sure I can get at least 1 smoke working on each of my expander boards, so that I understand how the wiring/etc is supposed to work. Then I'll make changes if need be.
Thanks for any opinions.
A) Location of Main Elk board.
I have 2 options.
1) (Current plan) on main floor, in the media closet. Currently also has 2 PCs, a 3805, Denon3805, ZPR68, EXP9 zone expander, 5 amps, and 1 DirecTV STB(soon to be 2). Not a secured location, but it is inside the house.
2) Current location of expander cabinet, in the crawlspace. Semi-accessible from the outside, but I can put locks and sensors up to detect intrusion.
B ) Wiring Location for Smoke/Heat Detectors
2 options are:
1) Run wiring to mainzone, but as you see above there's already a lot of wires there.
2) (current plan) run wiring to secondary zone, which is what i've been trying to do.
At this point, i'm going to make sure I can get at least 1 smoke working on each of my expander boards, so that I understand how the wiring/etc is supposed to work. Then I'll make changes if need be.
Thanks for any opinions.