beelzerob
Senior Member
I had planned on wiring each of my windows individually for contact sensors...but the wiring guide here suggested just wiring them on a room-by-room basis. And I think that's a great idea...I don't really care that the LEFT window in the living room is open, just that any window in there is.
It won't really save me much money, since we're only talking 22/2 wire here....but it could save me a lot of time. But what I don't understand is how I can use 1 wire to wire, say, 2 windows in a room. The windows I'm getting are going to be double hung, so I'm going to have to wire the top and bottom pane. But do I just run the wire across the window and then splice into it a new wire which goes down through the frame? My builder really recommends against having any connection in the wall and inaccessible (obviously high voltage couldn't be, but he believed low voltage I could), and I'm not a big fan of it either. But I just don't see how I would use 1 wire to connect to 2 windows. Do I pull a loop of the wire down through the hole and then splice it there on the frame?
Thanks for the help!
It won't really save me much money, since we're only talking 22/2 wire here....but it could save me a lot of time. But what I don't understand is how I can use 1 wire to wire, say, 2 windows in a room. The windows I'm getting are going to be double hung, so I'm going to have to wire the top and bottom pane. But do I just run the wire across the window and then splice into it a new wire which goes down through the frame? My builder really recommends against having any connection in the wall and inaccessible (obviously high voltage couldn't be, but he believed low voltage I could), and I'm not a big fan of it either. But I just don't see how I would use 1 wire to connect to 2 windows. Do I pull a loop of the wire down through the hole and then splice it there on the frame?
Thanks for the help!