{"id":1068,"date":"2010-02-04T19:28:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T17:28:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1068"},"modified":"2010-02-04T17:02:19","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T15:02:19","slug":"data-cabling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/?p=1068","title":{"rendered":"Data cabling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I got my Malawians to install a piece of gutter drain pipe from the roof of the main house, down the wall, under the path, and up into the (free standing) garage roof.<\/p>\n<p>I finally got around to putting some cabling into this pipe.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1069\" title=\"S6301943r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/S6301943r.jpg\" alt=\"S6301943r\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/S6301943r.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/S6301943r-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Three lengths of CAT-5, one 4-conductor telephone line, one eight conductor bundle for the alarm system, and a piece of five core trailer wire for one day when I want to put some of the lights in the house on a 12V UPS type system.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-1070\" title=\"S6301945r\" src=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/S6301945r.jpg\" alt=\"S6301945r\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/S6301945r.jpg 640w, http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/02\/S6301945r-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I had to cut a hole halfway and pull the wire through in stages &#8212; too much friction around the corners. (Don&#8217;t mind Tanya&#8217;s pet plastic bag blowing in the wind).<\/p>\n<p>Now to wire up the network points on both sides, so we can get rid of the patch cable going out the garage window, across the driveway, and into Tanya&#8217;s room.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A while ago, I got my Malawians to install a piece of gutter drain pipe from the roof of the main house, down the wall, under the path, and up into the (free standing) garage roof. I finally got around to putting some cabling into this pipe. Three lengths of CAT-5, one 4-conductor telephone line, one eight conductor bundle for the alarm system, and a piece of five core trailer wire for one day when I want to put some of the lights in the house on a 12V UPS type system. I had to cut a hole halfway and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31,4],"tags":[57],"class_list":["post-1068","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geek","category-house","tag-notwork"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1068"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1072,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068\/revisions\/1072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1068"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1068"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.retro.co.za\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1068"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}