I’ve got to install a ton of floor temp sensors for my radiant heating system. I know that with line voltage wiring you can not bury a splice. I don’t suppose there is an exception for low voltage wiring like the 24V on this thermostat wire?
thanks,
Daniel Neumansky
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You must have a valid reason for wanting a ton of sensors but having spent 30 years in the low voltage game, whether it is code or not, you really don't want to bury splices or make sensors inacccessible. With a ton of sensors, you can bet your sweet bippy that sometime in the future, you will have to deal with a problem with one or more of them. Making a splice as reliable as the continuous wire run is not impossible, but that won't eliminate sensor problems, so for me, access to the system parts would be a priority.
The phone companies have about 10 billion underground splices in their lines.
If you could do as good a job as they do, you wouldn't have any trouble.
and that's just the ones between the D box and yur phone...
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Unfortunately, I have been responsible for some of those patches. They shouldn't have put the *#*# phone line in that area anyway!!!!! and it should have been marked within 20 feet of where it actually was.
Every year we have to attend the annual banquet (lecture) put on by the local utility companies to caution you about digging up their cables, pipes, etc.
A few years ago, I was the recepient of a plaque with a mangled 1000 pair chunk of phone cable mounted on it. It was done in jest, but they took an awful delight in the presentation!
I am waiting to hit a large fiberoptic cable, as this will signal my retirement!
Had a friend that trenched through a nice size one a while back. Fortunately for him, he had followed all the proper procedures. When they had covered it, the spot where he was trenching across had a hump on it. Instead of being flat on the bottom of the utility's trench at about 5 or 6 feet it was only covered by about 20 inches.
Our "locates" will not guarantee a depth. They will tell you what it is supposed to be but if it is shallower and you hit it, you bought it.Basically when you are digging over a marked utility you do it with a tea spoon until you either get the depth you need or find it.I hit a gas line in Md where they do give you a depth, it was 12", supposed to be 4 feet. I got away with it.
Alright, alright so I was exgerating a bit.
There are 7 floor sensors to install and I just didn't want to have a bunch of ugly junciton box covers in the ceilings.
The temp sensors come with 10' so I jiggered the placement a bit and I havent had to do any splicing.
Hope I can make this work for all seven.
Why the heck to they come with 10' leads? why not 20' leads? Its not like the wire is made out of gold or something?
Daniel Neumansky
Restoring our second Victorian home this time in Alamdea CA. Check out the blog http://www.chezneumansky.blogspot.com/
Oakland CA
Crazy Homeowner-Victorian Restorer
If you can't make the runs with the supplied cable, just run wire to the sensor and splice it with beans or butts about a foot from the sensor.
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