Hi. My electrician helpfully decided to run cat5 cable to all sensor points when I asked him to wire the house for an alarm during first fix and I only realised once it was plastered. I have just about managed to wire on the keypads and PIRs but the panel is impossible as the cores keep snapping trying to get them all into the connectors.
What do people do normally in this situation. I am thinking of a large connector box at the top of the wall where the cat5 wires come out and use connector strips to connect them to standard alarm cable and run that to the alarm panel.
If I do, could I double up some of cat5 cores that carry the power into single alarm cable cores? Or is it worth persevering with the cat5 into the panel?
Thanks.
What do people do normally in this situation. I am thinking of a large connector box at the top of the wall where the cat5 wires come out and use connector strips to connect them to standard alarm cable and run that to the alarm panel.
If I do, could I double up some of cat5 cores that carry the power into single alarm cable cores? Or is it worth persevering with the cat5 into the panel?
Thanks.