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[dnesci]

:?: Has anyone tried to use 4 pair wire such as intercom cable or telephone wire, in place of cat cable to interface with SSRs? If so, has it worked. As it is not data sensitive, I thought it would work. The pricing is generally 1/2 that of Cat

[grages]

Can you give us a link to it somewhere?

[Mudsculpter]

I think there are quite a few that use 4 pair wire.

[dmcole]

Wireway on eBay (http://stores.ebay.com/eWireway) sells 500 ft. of telephone wire (Cat3) for $35 and 500 ft of Cat5 for $36. Sevenish cents a foot either way.

Of course, if you want to buy the 45 case-skid of 1000-ft cases of Cat5 (any color BTW), you can drive the cost down to a nickle about a foot, but even for the most dedicated blinky flashy that might be a bit too much Cat5.

\dmc

PS: Not affiliated with Wireway; just did a search.

[cmurray]

I use flat satin phone cord.
6 conductor rj12 connectors.

No issues.

Joel

[dnesci]

Just looking for some reassureance. Seven cent a foot is good for me.

[DynamoBen]

If all you are doing is running SSRs 4 pair cat 3 will be fine. If however you were running high speed data down the wire cat5 or higher would be required. Go for it.

[dnesci]

Data from the PC will be on good wire. I was talking about the long runs to the SSRs.

[DynamoBen]

That will work fine then.

[teberle]

The funny thing is that I found Cat3 cable to be more expensive than cat5. So guess what I used.