Installation (continued)
Pulling the Cable
Whenever you run the cable farther than
Concealing Sensor Cable in Existing Walls
This is actually a fairly simple task if you restrict your choice of the tabletop sensor location and cable routes to the interior walls or ceilings of your home. Interior walls in almost all North American residences are hollow, so that it is easy to route new sensor cable around the house. What you see when you look at the painted wall board, plaster, or paneling is only the skin of the wall. Behind
the skin is the skeleton;
the studs and the joists is the space for the wiring and plumbing of your home.
Exterior walls are different. They must insulate the house from the heat and cold outside, so they are stuffed with insulation. The national building code requires that the hollow wall space in exterior walls be broken by a horizontal stud placed between the vertical studs. This “fire blocking” makes it very difficult to retrofit long lengths of cable. In some areas of the country the exterior walls are constructed of solid masonry, and have no hollow space for cables.
Start by examining all the possible routes you might take to run the sensor cable from the sensor
location Installation to the A/V components to be controlled. Use a stud sensor or other device to
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