Low Voltage Wiring

The shipment of low voltage wiring arrived. From L to R, white bundles are RG6 (cable TV), black bundle is HDMI, two in-wall speakers (for surround), two reels of smurftube, a box of 500' of speaker wire, and a box of 1000' of Cat6 ethernet cable.


Running the first of two LV drops in the playroom (this one is next to the bathroom)


The smurftube stays empty - it's for future use. Below is the same drop but with the cable TV installed.


Running the second smurftube in the playroom


Installed and with CATV


Much, much more to do. This is all going to take some time.

Also, I need to fire off a nasty gram to APC. I'm not impressed with the Universal Transfer Switch anymore. After the unit was installed, I awoke to find that our heat pump was not running. It was because I had requested that the heat pump/AC was to be wired to the UTS on the single 240V circuit. It had blown a 20amp fuse in the UTS. All of my 240V circuits run on at least 30 amps. The UTS is only rated to 20amps on this circuit. Why is this a problem? Because this same 240V circuit is also what powers the UTS. So I asked the electrician to disconnect the 240V circuit to the heat pump, so now the whole thing is dead on my wall until he installs a new 240V 20 AMP circuit that is dedicated to only supporting the UTS.

Technically, this is no big deal, as I never planned to purchase a genset strong enough to power a 240V circuit. But I still feel this was advertised incorrectly, as most new homes will probably not have a 240V circuit with anything under 30 AMPS.

Rant off