They're located about 4 feet off of the floor and the homeowner rarely enters the electronics room. Even if he did, he probably wouldn't have a wrench or rachet anywhere near these binding posts since they're on the side wall. He would call us if there were any issues and wouldn't attempt fixing anything himself.

Makes a lot of sense though, I can see where this could be an issue.........thanks for the advice.

The inside of the wall is actually quite clean, believe it or not. There's plenty of slack above the wall and attic access from inside the electronics room. This allowed us to trim the wires at the plates to length(+ 1 or 2").

If you pull any of the 8 gang decoras, it's very easy to see what's going on and you'll only see the wiring for that 8 gang. The main trunk that runs down is tied up neatly to the sides.

Plus, the backside is a coat closet and we furred the wall out an additional 3.5" before sheetrock went up. So there's a full 7" inside for cable management.

These racks all look great but the one thing I noticed is that there are no HDMI cables in any of them. How are you organizing the HDMI cables when you can only buy certain lengths?

FASTLS

most of us dont use HDMI, not worth the service calls

I only use it unless i apsolutly have to or the customer insist......However most of my customers dont know what we use except high quality cables :)

I think most of these systems incorporate distributed video. Its very expensive to distribute hdmi reliable, but getting to the point where it can be done over the network for almost the same cost as distributing component.

I am currently working on what may be our last distributed component system. The next video distribution will be HDMI using Crestron products.

This product allows you to send HDMI & Control over fiber for 1000'.





I havent looked at all the Digital Media products but it would be lovely to only have to deal with fiber and cat5/6 at the switcher end.

Any idea how easy (or hard) it is to terminate the fiber? I don't know if gains have been made in the area, but fiber used to be notoriously hard to terminate.

CJ

Things are getting easier....

Nice!

CJ

Nah, we've tried using custom cables but it took a lot longer than doing it this way.
We mostly use Ultralink except for when we sell a JBL Synthesis system, they have there own cabling from Straightwire.

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So, for there to be a Venturi effect, you have to have two flows of some sort where one affects the other. But

So what you are talking about is not the Venturi effect. That's from Wikipedia, so it might not be exactly right, but it can't be THAT wrong.


I don't see how this is different from what you describe in the first quote. In both cases, you've got some air moving, and some air moving slower, and the moving air draws the non-moving air. Both cases don't mention heat at all, but if they did, chimney effect is indeed a good name for this.


Then they were speaking sloppily. You can easily use the same concept for the same reason without using the wrong name.

I've done several projects where I drilled 3/8" holes on 1" centers in 1" x 1" angle aluminum for F81s. We brought all cables to them, then distributed from there. One install had about forty, one about sixty cables. I ran one angle across the top of the backboard and the other down one edge.


It's better than 30 6" extensions later. Never trust a dongle, as it's a kluge every time, and will be removed when the manufacturer gets their act together.

i took a training course by Liberty Cable a few months back.......Very easy to terminate fiber.

It takes some getting used to but after you do quite a few im sure you can do it very quick. I think liberties method is quicker and more "secure" then Panduits.

I'm very excited about all the new fiber products. ICE Cable is now shipping fiber and the Corning Termination Kit. I think its the same one that Crestron is selling or suggesting.

I have the Neopro Lightspider spec'd into a job coming up, but I think I also that Partsexpress has a HDMI over Fiber solution.

Me don't like fibber. My left eye'sbal all ruined from tini pieces of glass that gots in dare when I was terminatin and my right eye's not workin' too well since I started a-using it to stare down the ended end of a fibber to see if it twas live or nots. Who knew? Thank god I gots one of them text to voice thingies or I wouldn't be able to know what's on this forum. Be curful!