Wiring question

[justin626]

I have a plan to run speaker wire, an IR sensor, a Wii sensor, an HDMI wire, and romex to the same location, where I am mounting my tv.

I've already been advised that the romex and the speaker wire shouldn't be ran next to one another. I'm curious if I'm going to run into any addition problems with these other cables.

And is there a way to get away with running the speaker wire and the romex together. I know that in certain applications, like in automotive com cables, they have a foil wrap that works as a shield for interference.

Justin

[krips]

You can purchase voltage dividers to go into the box to split up the hi/low voltage stuff. Or if you're mounting an arlington box you can just run them into their respective places. What is Romex? Is that what you guys call NDM?

[Lex]

Romex is the electrical cable.

Romax typically doesn't have to be in conduit, but I'd run conduit for your theater wires, I'd have come out in two plates, you just can't mix electrical and non electrical, would never pass code.

[krips]

You can mix low voltage and line voltage with a voltage divider, at least where I'm from. I would definitely run conduit and stub it out into the tbar ceiling or attic so that you can change cabling easily as the technology changes though, as Lex suggested. You'll have to run seperate conduits for the signal cables though unless they're insulated for the same voltage as your power wires.