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In Reply to: RE: Safety! posted by Duster on September 09, 2015 at 15:16:32
Duster and ugly, thank you for your input and advise. This morning I replaced the cat5 wire with some up-occ copper 18ga hookup wire I forgot I had from a previous project. I'm pretty shure it's made by Neotech. I do believe the change of wire has brought more definition to the music.
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Use two parallel runs of 18 ga for each leg.
Peace,
Tom E
You don't think there ought to be line voltage rated insulation on this unspecified 18AWG?
If it's Neotech wire, the insulation is rated for 600 volts.
Some people think nothing of posting stupidly unsafe ideas for "tweaks" of dubious merit here. In this case, you are overreacting.
20ga cat 5 wire for line voltage? You were correct to write definitely not a good idea. Double run of 18ga Neotech? No problem.
Peace,
Tom E
When I made the post, the user wasn't even sure it was Neotech. I have never heard of Neotech, certainly don't have the insulation rating of their entire product line memorized. When I go look at the website, finding insulation voltage rating was enough of a pain to make me give up nearly immediately.
I'm not sure why you'd expect this to be such common knowledge that me not knowing it from memory somehow justifies you making personal attacks on me.
The thing to do is either match or exceeed the line wiring gauge with whatever wiring used in the filter so the upstream breaker can protect the filter without a fuse, OR add a fuse suitable to protect whatever wiring you are using inside the filter.
Also, I'd be using wiring with insulation rated to take line voltages. The cat5 will probably work but if it isn't rated for the task there is no telling how reliable it will be. The last thing you want is some unknown failure energizing some metallic piece a loved one comes into contact with.
Here it just hurts a bit if your lucky, they tell me mistakes in EU are more likely to be deadly due to the higher voltages there.
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