felixrosbergen
Senior Member
Hi All,
I have my ELK installed but meed to connect the motions and some temp sensors (ZTS).
I plan to use cat5 to connect these items since i have it around.
Is there any convention to the wire color coding? I want to be as consistent as possible.
Also to conect some SP12F speaker i used cat5 and ganged 2 x 4 conductors to create a higher guage connection. Basically i took all the 'white/xxx' wires and put them together and then all the solid colors and put them togethers. The questions now is if the 'whites' shoudl represent the positive or the negative?
For conencting the temp sensors I followed ELK's databus color scheme where 'Brown' is positive and 'White/Brown' is negative and then i used the solid green for the signal (solid green corressponds with the actual installation instructions). At the same time however it seems that for telehony the white/blue wire is actually positive so there's no apparent consistency.
To make things worse for HV (120v) the black is the 'hot' (which i wold consider positive) and the white is neutral (which i would consider to be the equivalent of negative in DC world)
When using 16/4 to connect a pair of speakers on the red/black pair the black is obviously the negative, but on the white/green pair which is the negative?
Can any tell me what they did, point me in the direction of some sort of standard or provide guidance is some sort of way.
If there are no standards maybe we should as a community come up with a convention of some sorts that new members can reference. At least within the community we would have less confusion when helping each other out.
I have my ELK installed but meed to connect the motions and some temp sensors (ZTS).
I plan to use cat5 to connect these items since i have it around.
Is there any convention to the wire color coding? I want to be as consistent as possible.
Also to conect some SP12F speaker i used cat5 and ganged 2 x 4 conductors to create a higher guage connection. Basically i took all the 'white/xxx' wires and put them together and then all the solid colors and put them togethers. The questions now is if the 'whites' shoudl represent the positive or the negative?
For conencting the temp sensors I followed ELK's databus color scheme where 'Brown' is positive and 'White/Brown' is negative and then i used the solid green for the signal (solid green corressponds with the actual installation instructions). At the same time however it seems that for telehony the white/blue wire is actually positive so there's no apparent consistency.
To make things worse for HV (120v) the black is the 'hot' (which i wold consider positive) and the white is neutral (which i would consider to be the equivalent of negative in DC world)
When using 16/4 to connect a pair of speakers on the red/black pair the black is obviously the negative, but on the white/green pair which is the negative?
Can any tell me what they did, point me in the direction of some sort of standard or provide guidance is some sort of way.
If there are no standards maybe we should as a community come up with a convention of some sorts that new members can reference. At least within the community we would have less confusion when helping each other out.