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Low Voltage Wire

Today(Sunday, Oct 16) we finally pulled the first of our low voltage wire. We have three primary systems. We have a wireless network now and will install one in the new house, so why are we pulling structured wire that will give us dual cat5 and dual coax in 7 locations around the house? Read here:

http://www.hometech.com/acrobat/structured.pdf

We are also installing an alarm system. An alarm company is installing the control unit, we are pulling the wire and setting the contacts for them.

The final system is our whole house audio. We are installing a multi-zone, multi-input system that will allow us to listen to music from different sources in various parts of the house at the same time. I (Mike) took a class last week at the Home Tech store in Cupertino, They are an EXCELLENT resource. Want to learn more, just click here: http://www.hometech.com/learn/audio.html#intro

Here are 5 of the 6 or 7 different gauge wires we are using for this project.

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