Control Panel Wiring

[pjcolley]

Hi

I have finally purchased all the bits to upgrade my old Comfort I panel, and whilst doing this I thought I would take the opportunity to move the panel to a better location.

Now I have always considered the wiring inside my old panel to be rather untidy, never had any problems with other than it looks a jumble of wire,  so before I start with the new panel does anyone have any tips on how to route the wires in a tidy manner? I understood previously that as I was using shielded multi core for my zones that all shielding should be grounded to the terminal post inside the case which means a lot of these going to one place is this still the necessary as it makes things worse? 

Any help would be appreciated

Thanks

Phil

[ident]

Shielding is not necessary for zone wiring. Unshielded multicore alarm cable is suffifient.
Shileded CAT 5 cable is recommended for keypad and door station wiring.
Wiring for other modules can use unshielded CAT 5
Others may be able to give advice of how to make the wiring neat

regards

[juwi_uk]

Hi

What I did was to build a separate junction box (next to Comfort Panel) and added a tamper protection microswitch linked back to the main Comfort Tamper zone.  In the junction box I added long connector strips I could then use for all zone(s) connec tions and daisy-chains.  I fed 12v power to this box from Comfort for any devices (ie PIRs) that needed power.  I also feed 12v and 6v external power feeds from external power supplies too for other devices I wanted to power separately from Comfort (but that\'s another story).

I then ran all sensor wiring in the house back to this junction box.  

I connected this junction box to all of the zones in Comfort using 8 core alarm cable; each cable allowed me to connect to 4 zones (4 x 2 wire feeds).   So for example I could wire 16 zones with just 4 cables which dramtically cut down the spaghetti in the Comfort case.   All of the spaghetti is now in the junction box and not seen or needed to be accessed unless you need to add/remove a sensor.

Might give you some ideas.

Julian