Thanks for all your sarcastic comments and the total lack of constructive input.
So suggesting that this sort of thing:
would be better than this sort of thing:
was not a constructive suggestion?
You have managed to twist everything into something its not so u can criticise.
I've twisted nothing.
The one off test rig assembled for a friends experiment has nothing to do with heating
The context of what it's controlling is irrelevant to the wiring methods used.
and 'production' if there ever was any is irrelevant
I accepted that what you showed was a test rig, I did not know that it was not subsequently put into use. And you were the one who said it showed "
the type of enclosures used in most domestic and light commercial properties", so if you were excusing its scruffiness because it was an experimental test rig, and I did not know that the system wasn't put into permanent use, it's quite reasonable to ask how you did it when the test was over and it was done "for real".
but well done for twisting that into something to jeer at.
I've twisted nothing and jeered at nothing.
99% domestic wiring centres are small IP rated enclosures of some sort
I'm sure they are. But if the scale and complexity of the wiring needed nowadays has reached the level shown in your photo then those types of enclosures are no longer fit for purpose.
Unlike the way that OT was designed to work on mid-20th century installation wiring because that's what was already there, you
do have a choice about the types of enclosures and connectors you use. You don't have to carry on using lots of little boxes and choc-block just because that's the way it's been done for the last 50 years. Nor should you.
and the pic was to show the in-practicability of large long glands on small enclosures,
These are no larger than the glands in your photo:
but well done for deliberately missing the point to jeer on.
I've not deliberately missed, or jeered at, anything.
The OT & supporting infrastructure available to day is a light year away from how it was or may have been done 50 years ago.
That's what I mean about locking it into a decades-old infrastructure type.
As to cat 5 - never used it know little about it possibly why I asked on here to get some help
I was the first person to suggest the use of that type of cable. It is widely available and cheap, it needs no special glands or expensive tooling, and is purpose designed to carry data signals over long distances at high rates and be intrinsically resistant to interference.
But apparently that was not a constructive suggestion.
but again turned into a sarcastic jeer.
Saying "
Dear God" to the news that Cat5 cabling is not, or is very rarely, supported is neither sarcasm nor jeering.