Wiring your home 101 - Question

[Brains]

(I hope I am posting this in the right section. I did look up if a previous topic existed, but was unable to find any)

I am new here and about to start rebuilding the house. very literally, the complete front part is going to be taken down and rebuilt - a cellar is going to be installed.

time to think about wiring then. I am grateful for this 5 star starter document Wiring your home 101. The few pages there give a whole lot more practical information than the 400+ page book "Smart Homes for Dummies" (should have known :wacko: )


I read through all three. Document three is very hands-on and proposes the wires to install in each room and their functions.

e.g. for master bedroom the document mentions this:
Security keypad – Cat-5E, Firewire
Touch screen – Cat-5E, electrical power
Speakers, whole house sound – 16/4 or 14/4 or 18/2, depending on music system and configuration
Microphone – Shielded microphone cable
IR – Cat-5E or Station wire
Video – RG6QS, multiple drops
Telephone – Cat-5E, multiple drops
Network – Cat-5E, multiple drops
Motion detector – Station wire
Smoke detector - Firewire
CO Detector – Station wire or Firewire
Window contacts – Station wire

There are 5 uses linked to Cat-5E cabling - I suppose it does mean that running 1 Cat-5E cable to the master bedroom is sufficient... or am I incorrectly assuming that?

Is it the same for Station wire (mentioned 3 times)? And what does "multiple drops" mean?

 

[mustangcoupe]

(I hope I am posting this in the right section. I did look up if a previous topic existed, but was unable to find any)

I read through all three. Document three is very hands-on and proposes the wires to install in each room and their functions.

e.g. for master bedroom the document mentions this:
Security keypad – Cat-5E, Firewire
Touch screen – Cat-5E, electrical power
Speakers, whole house sound – 16/4 or 14/4 or 18/2, depending on music system and configuration
Microphone – Shielded microphone cable
IR – Cat-5E or Station wire
Video – RG6QS, multiple drops
Telephone – Cat-5E, multiple drops
Network – Cat-5E, multiple drops
Motion detector – Station wire
Smoke detector - Firewire
CO Detector – Station wire or Firewire
Window contacts – Station wire

There are 5 uses linked to Cat-5E cabling - I suppose it does mean that running 1 Cat-5E cable to the master bedroom is sufficient... or am I incorrectly assuming that?

Is it the same for Station wire (mentioned 3 times)? And what does "multiple drops" mean?

First let me welcome you here to CT where there is a welth of knowledge in our members....

Yes your assumption is incorrect. for each item you would need a seperate cat5 and in some instances maybe multiple (telephone and network)

 

[Brains]

First let me welcome you here to CT where there is a welth of knowledge in our members....

Yes your assumption is incorrect. for each item you would need a seperate cat5 and in some instances maybe multiple (telephone and network)

thanks for the quick reply mc.

so you'd need one cat5 coming from the wiring closet for the security keypad, another one for the touch screen, a third one for the IR and so on. that's quite a lot of cables going around the house! :wacko:

would it be an option to set up routers in between? so that you have one coming from the wiring closet in the basement leading through the router in the master bedroom which connects the other peripherals?

 

[mustangcoupe]

would it be an option to set up routers in between? so that you have one coming from the wiring closet in the basement leading through the router in the master bedroom which connects the other peripherals?

It is not not all ethernet communications, Cat5 is just used as a universal because of the number of conductors and the twist adds some noise immunity.

So No you can not use a router. Look around a bit and you will find people talking about thousands of feet of wire they pulled. along with photos at the termination or "wiring closet"