Cabling Project

June 18, 2011 in Home Automation

I am finally done with re-wiring and tidying up all the wiring for my home automation system. Over many years as I expanded or added a new gadget to the system I would often run the cabling in some sort of expedient fashion which lead to quite a spaghetti mess of wires. So last weekend I yanked all the wires from my Elk M1 alarm/home control panel and re-wired everything the right way. Some cabling was thrown about the house and I had to remove it and and make a more permanent run – often through the attic. I moved the panel and installed a riser (schedule 40) from the panel that stubs into the attic to accommodate the wire runs. Not only is the attic warm this time of year, but I then had to figure the connections of each wire as they hooked into the panel and test everything to make sure it all worked.

Some photos after I was done. If you think there are a lot of wires showing now, you should have seen it before…