A generation of American men give up on college

Re:A generation of American men give up on college by WalterBright on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @06:05AM (#28442948)

If you run, say, the telephone wires through the same holes, they'll pick up a maddening 60 Hz hummmmmmmmmmm. You're screwed because when this is discovered, the house is finished, and it gets very very expensive to rewrite it.

The closer the low voltage wires are to the high voltage ones, and the longer the distance, the more hmmmmmmm they'll pick up.

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Re:A generation of American men give up on college by staysafeanon on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @07:20PM (#28451035)

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.

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Re:A generation of American men give up on college by WalterBright on Tuesday September 07, 2021 @10:13PM (#28452233)

I didn't think of that. It makes sense. I did think about the low voltage wire picking up enough voltage from induction to damage equipment.

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