Spring... getting rid of the winter funk!

10:54AM May 03, 2010 in category General by Ed Daigle

Update time... Wow! I haven't worked on the HT for quite awhile. A few posts back and I was trying to make a wife imposed Christmas deadline... Well, that came and went but I guess my wife has softened her deadline given the drama I went through over winter. Right now the electrician is hounding me because my eletrical permits are expiring (or have expired; that going to mean more money)... Well, I actually have been working on the HT since I'm still waiting for my boat to be splashed. I'm at the point that I can taste the insulation and drywall. Almost all of the wiring is complete; with some future proofing wire runs left (like RG6 for satellite and ent tubing). Total amount of cable ran: 2 x 1000' boxes of station wire! 3 x 500' boxes of Cat5e! 1/2 x 1000' roll of firewire, 1/2 x 300' roll of bell wire, about 500' of in-wall speaker wire, and about 300' of RG6. This means I ran 4950 feet of cable. Now to be fair, doing a home automation/security system that is future proofed (any scenario/possibility I could think of, I planned for) will use alot of wire. Most likely I won't use even half of it within the short term. I got 7 weeks vacation owed to me this summer! Of course, a good chunk of that is planned to be used on my boat. But I have planned a two week period around end of May to really work on the HT and get it done. Soon as I start insulation/drywall, I'll have pics. Cheers, Kaoru

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