Cat Distribution system
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Comments (2)What about creating a "rain barrel" out of PVC pipe? You could place a 40' run of 6" or 8" PVC on top of cynder blocks under the porch and direct the down spouts into the PVC. A 40' run of 6" PVC would provide for over 75 gallons of storage. You could then direct the water from the PVC pipe into drip irrigation tubing. (On the lowest point in the PVC, insert a downward pointing Tee fitting. From there, insert reducing bushings into reducing bushing until you finally have a 1/2" bushing with threads inside. There are drip fittings that will go from 1/2" female threads to 1/2" drip irrigation tubing.) Run a length of 1/2" drip irrigation tubing from the PVC to the back of the planting bed. Continue the tubing so that it runs the length of the planting bed. You can then run 1/4" tubing from the 1/2" distribution line to individual plants. Rather than using drip emmitters (you'll only have about 1/4psi of pressure) just leave the ends of the 1/4" tubing open. To prevent the tubing from getting clogged, you might want to stake them in the air (like many instructions show for drip emmiters) and hidden inside the plants. Don't forget some sort of over-flow system for those times when the storage tube gets full during an extended downpour....See MoreCat5e & Cat6 to whole house or just Cat5e?
Comments (5)Cat6 is not that difficult to terminate. It is somewhat more demanding than cat5e, but I would not trust someone who can't terminate cat6 to do my cabling anyway. I always have the same answer to questions like this: would you rather install cat6 and 10 years later realize you didn't need it, or install cat5e and wish you had cat6? Install more than you think you need during construction, unless it's cost prohibitive. In this case (and indeed in most cases), the incremental cost of cat6 is minuscule, because most of the cost is labor rather than materials (and labor is nearly the same for cat6). In most current applications it does not make a difference, but it does in some, and there may be more in the future. It is so much easier to run cable while the walls are open, that IMHO it's a complete no-brainer to "over-spec" a little bit to avoid regret and having to tear things up in the future. I've been through the project of adding cable to an existing home, and it is not fun. It involved literally hundreds of holes in drywall, all of which needed to be patched, texture matched and painted (not to mention the hours upon hours of labor I had to pay for the guys to fish cable through finished spaces)....See MoreMulti room music distribution system
Comments (4)I am going to place a music distribution system in my home. I had initially decided on the MDS-6A but have changed my mind. I have the MDS-6a in my office and have been pleased with it but the russound system has more features and the lcd UNO-S2 keypad looks really cool. I am going w/ russound CAM6.6. I am putting a 7.1 system in thre family room. We are placing ceiling speakers throughout the house except in ceilings below bedrooms. There are a number of music servers out there but for now I will be using a dedicated PC. I plan to have XM radio, PC, CD player, AM/FM tuner, and audio from the tv as sources. I have an audio guy who is doing the set up/installation. I'm using cat5e cable. A few cool sites for research are: http://www.hometech.com/home/index.html http://www.home-technology-store.com/ http://www.ecoustics.com/...See MoreDistributed video over RF
Comments (1)You need a video modulator. You can then modulate any video signal to whatever channel you want. You just have to make sure the frequency associated with that channel is clear on the CATV line. This a is were a problem may occur. Most cable systems are hybrid with part of the signals analog and part digitial. In my case 2-63 was analog 64-124 was for digital channels. I used a notch filter to remove channels 64-70 and put back the CCTV as channel 66. This worked well for me since all the TVs it fed only had analog tuners and only received channels 2-63 +66. If I wanted a cable box for the higher channels, I would lose whatever had been broadcast in 64-70 region....See More- 2 years ago
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