Bit more advice would be welcome if any of you chaps have much experience with this......
Been running new alarm cables today but there are a couple of places what are very tricky as the original cabling was put in at the first fix stage of building by the looks of it. It would be great therefore if i could utilize a couple of the existing cables. I have belled them out and the continuity of all cores is sound so i would like to make a joint by soldering to some new cable and covering the joints with some small heatshrink, the joints would be made in a bit of small mini trunking (unavoidable).
Is soldering considered good enough? Im using EOL wiring so am just concerned about high resistance joints over time although im a pretty good solderer.
Incidently, got 1.08 ohms on a pair in the existing cable - with using EOL wiring, how does the panel account for the increased resistance from the cabling as i assumed its looking for a certain figure?
cheers
Been running new alarm cables today but there are a couple of places what are very tricky as the original cabling was put in at the first fix stage of building by the looks of it. It would be great therefore if i could utilize a couple of the existing cables. I have belled them out and the continuity of all cores is sound so i would like to make a joint by soldering to some new cable and covering the joints with some small heatshrink, the joints would be made in a bit of small mini trunking (unavoidable).
Is soldering considered good enough? Im using EOL wiring so am just concerned about high resistance joints over time although im a pretty good solderer.
Incidently, got 1.08 ohms on a pair in the existing cable - with using EOL wiring, how does the panel account for the increased resistance from the cabling as i assumed its looking for a certain figure?
cheers