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A geeks quest for wire nirvana
I'm trying the impossible here, trying to reach a farway land I like to call wiring nirvana. This is the place where all the wires in your computer room blend into the surroundings, becoming transparent to the people in the room. And no, this doesn't mean that you cannot see the wires, Wires are far to pervasve for that to ever happen, I just want them to be out of the way, work all the time and easy to maintain when the time comes that you need to add, remove, move switch, swap or replace a wire for any ungodly reason.
The task at hand, rewire the dowstairs livingroom/den area. This room is an interesting challenge as it has a projector mounted on the ceiling, and my DataTower, the geeky set of shelves that house my gear. (made to match the size fo rack equipment)
On the tower lives 2 computer towers, a mini PC (my media center edition PC) my 5 component stereo system, 2 uninterruptible power sources and the house's main networking switch (brought into the fray today thanks to the fedex lady)
The wires were out of the way, but they were really difficult to change and it put a lot of strain on the wires. I knew i could do better.
So, needless to say all this shit has a absurd anout of wires. Today I cleaned it all up and even installed a new addition to the room, the convenient new Quickline ceiling wiring system. The quickline is basically just a piece of thick cable liek you might use on a zipline, but thinner, which is attached to eye=hooks and pulled as taught as possible. This carries the strain so that wires can be hung along the ceiling with velcro straps every 2 feet or so.
In Progress, you can see the Quickline and the velcro installed and a ethernet cable waititng to be tied in properly.
So yes, My wires are much better now, they are also easier to replace and they even stay a little more out of the way then before. The solution isn't elegant, but what can i say, the room has wood panelling from the 70's... does it really deserve better? (I wanna see "trading spaces" take on this room, I think they would just have their heads explode when they see how ugly this room is.)
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The task at hand, rewire the dowstairs livingroom/den area. This room is an interesting challenge as it has a projector mounted on the ceiling, and my DataTower, the geeky set of shelves that house my gear. (made to match the size fo rack equipment)
On the tower lives 2 computer towers, a mini PC (my media center edition PC) my 5 component stereo system, 2 uninterruptible power sources and the house's main networking switch (brought into the fray today thanks to the fedex lady)
The wires were out of the way, but they were really difficult to change and it put a lot of strain on the wires. I knew i could do better.
So, needless to say all this shit has a absurd anout of wires. Today I cleaned it all up and even installed a new addition to the room, the convenient new Quickline ceiling wiring system. The quickline is basically just a piece of thick cable liek you might use on a zipline, but thinner, which is attached to eye=hooks and pulled as taught as possible. This carries the strain so that wires can be hung along the ceiling with velcro straps every 2 feet or so.
In Progress, you can see the Quickline and the velcro installed and a ethernet cable waititng to be tied in properly.
So yes, My wires are much better now, they are also easier to replace and they even stay a little more out of the way then before. The solution isn't elegant, but what can i say, the room has wood panelling from the 70's... does it really deserve better? (I wanna see "trading spaces" take on this room, I think they would just have their heads explode when they see how ugly this room is.)
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