Since I am build a new shop, I figure I will put the compressed air lines inside the walls. I am considering using 3/4″ PEX-AL-PEX, which is a variety of PEX that has an aluminum layer. You can buy kits from Rapidair that use PEX-AL-PEX, and those include aluminum mounting blocks for putting on walls. It will be nice to have it routed inside the walls, with drops at different locations.
Anyone used this technique?
Sometimes the car work is fun, and sometimes it is necessary. The starter died on my Yukon Denali XL a few weeks ago, but by luck this evening it worked, so I quickly drove it into the shop and onto the lift. GM made the space you can remove it through just a tad smaller than the starter itself. Always thinking ahead those guys.
I am working on the internal wiring plan for the new house. On the networking side, I am leaning towards using Cat6A F/UTP cabling (as contrasted to U/UTP or F/FTP). It seems like F/UTP is a good compromise as the shielding provides better alien (NEXT/FEXT) protection compared to U/UTP. Any comments on this thinking?
It looks like I will have 52 Camera drops, 21 AP drops, 140 data drops (2 drops per location), and 38 speaker drops, plus all of the normal security wiring, etc.
While I don’t need that many APs right now, over time as APs evolve to higher frequency line-of-sight speeds those wires will help, especially if they can support 10G.
The camera drops could be simple Cat6, as I doubt I will need 10Gig for security cameras. Every drop will have 2 cables for redundancy. In total that should be something around 500 cable runs. I would guess average length would be around 20 meters, so about 10km (6.2 miles) of Cat6 or 6A.
For the dedicated locations that have TVs I would probably due 4 Cat6A for video, plus a few extra for control and network.
Anything obvious I am missing?
Huh Paul Yaw.. Not sure what this means yet.