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He notes it in the video but the Chicago metropolitan area has pretty strict electrical codes. Everything must run through EMT conduit with fully enclosed electrical boxes. Chicago has some weird thing about preventing fires…hmm can’t think of where that came from…
For commercial, this extends to low voltage as well. Freerunning cat6 or speaker wire down walls and through ceilings is often completely forbidden. Personally I think that’s a bit much…but with the prevalence of PoE and new standards that increase power throughout, maybe it’s not such a bad idea.
Yeah, I was gonna chime in with that last point. PoE++ can pump 100W and you just know some dumbfuck is going to try and force it down some ratty, micron-thick, Cat-0 gash at some point.
I’ve been asked to do similar at my old job…no I will not try to put an AP on this line that’s not even capable of gigabit. Thankfully I moved up to high end commercial where clients actually care about building code and our field technicians are union and work by the book.
He notes it in the video but the Chicago metropolitan area has pretty strict electrical codes. Everything must run through EMT conduit with fully enclosed electrical boxes. Chicago has some weird thing about preventing fires…hmm can’t think of where that came from…
For commercial, this extends to low voltage as well. Freerunning cat6 or speaker wire down walls and through ceilings is often completely forbidden. Personally I think that’s a bit much…but with the prevalence of PoE and new standards that increase power throughout, maybe it’s not such a bad idea.
Yeah, I was gonna chime in with that last point. PoE++ can pump 100W and you just know some dumbfuck is going to try and force it down some ratty, micron-thick, Cat-0 gash at some point.
I’ve been asked to do similar at my old job…no I will not try to put an AP on this line that’s not even capable of gigabit. Thankfully I moved up to high end commercial where clients actually care about building code and our field technicians are union and work by the book.