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Re:A generation of American men give up on college by lhoff on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @05:50AM (#28442861)
The AC voltage will induce noise onto the low voltage wire. That noise can be of a higher voltage then the low voltage and damage the equipment behind it.

See also https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electromagnetic_induction

Re:A generation of American men give up on college by staysafeanon on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:20PM (#28451036)
This isn't the main reason running low and high voltage through the same conduit is not code compliant though.

The reason you don't mix low/high in the same raceway is because if exposed low/high voltage conductors come in contact with each other, the low voltage cable has a much higher chance of catching fire.

Re:A generation of American men give up on college by orbifold on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @06:17AM (#28443012)
That shouldn't happen if the cable is properly shielded, no?
Re:A generation of American men give up on college by MereInterest on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:00AM (#28443266)
Electric fields are easy to shield against with a Faraday cage, but magnetic fields are a royal pain. You can use mu-metal shielding, but that's rather expensive and only reduces the magnetic field. Technically, if you wanted to entirely shield from magnetic fields, you'd need to surround the wire with a superconductor, but that requires liquid nitrogen/helium cooling that is out of the scope of most residential work.
Re:A generation of American men give up on college by auxym on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @06:58AM (#28443251)
In practice home LV wiring is rarely shielded, maybe with CAT6 as an exception. Things like speaker wire, doorbells, vacuum control wires, etc are not typically shielded.

Also the shield needs a low impedance return path to be effective.