By Bob Catanzarite |
The Central Wiring Panel
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Planning - Chapter 2
Start with your floorplan. Having labels for your cables is very important. When you end up with 30 or 40 cables coming into the CWP you'll be lost with out some form of label to know where the cable goes to. Give each outlet plate a short name. This short name should be somewhat
descriptive of the outlets location. Keep the name short because this name will
be used to label each end of the cables running to and from that outlet. In my
case I used:
Now, draw into the floorplan the approximate route Now that every outlet plate has a name we need to give each port or jack on the outlet plate a short name. Remember that the goal here of all these names is to be able to label each cable on BOTH ends of every cable so that when you know where every cable goes. On the right you see my outlet plate and the names I used for each port.
How I Assigned Port Names:
Now we combine the outlet plate name with the port name to make up a cable name. For example: DNR-D2 indicates the cable going to the dining room (DNR) outlet
plate's data 2 port (D2). I created an Excel spreadsheet as an aid for me
in this planning process. You'll need to have Excel or an Excel
Viewer to see this spreadsheet. Or you can view this
version of the spreadsheet in PDF format. The spreadsheet shows which type of ports are included
in each of the outlet plates. In my case, all of the outlet plates have the same
ports on them. But if you decide to use some different set of ports on each of
the outlet plates this Excel spreadsheet can be a great deal of help. One very
nice benefit of this spreadsheet is that the column on the right has all of the
cable names listed. I actually used You can see these cable labels taped to the cables in the picture on the right. (Click the picture for a larger image)
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