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MovedGoalPosts · 15-09-2007, 20:01

I beleive it shouldn't run in the same conduit - mainly for risks of a dodgy connection or lack of sheathing somewhere creating risks of the Cat% becoming live. Same as telephony and other low voltage cabling really.

When my office was wired up a couple of years ago, surface mounted trunking was used with two trunking run parralel adjacent each other. One for mains and one for Cat5e and telephone. Thus you can run them close together, just not directly adjacent.

15-09-2007, 20:01	#2
MovedGoalPosts Inactive Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: 127.0.0.1 Age: 61 Posts: 15,868	Re: CAT5E Cabling, Proximty to Electrical Cabling I beleive it shouldn't run in the same conduit - mainly for risks of a dodgy connection or lack of sheathing somewhere creating risks of the Cat% becoming live. Same as telephony and other low voltage cabling really. When my office was wired up a couple of years ago, surface mounted trunking was used with two trunking run parralel adjacent each other. One for mains and one for Cat5e and telephone. Thus you can run them close together, just not directly adjacent.