Product Description

Learn how to design and install a Structured Wiring System using the latest in product technology.

This Manual is written in an ‘Example Home’ format that will help you to understand how a system is designed and installed. As you read through this publication, you will find a wide range of pictures that contain highly detailed diagrams illustrating wiring and termination information that the text can not furnish. This provides the reader with a more effective and enjoyable means of learning this technology.

Most chapters include floor plans that illustrate how cables are configured for each subsystem and the locations of the interactive receptacles where the cables are terminated. There are also diagrams that illustrate subsystems in greater detail as a whole or in part. This book also teaches you two different design methods that covers both moderate and advanced systems.

This book goes well beyond a tutorial of a typical Structured Wiring System by featuring PBX Digital Telephone Systems, Broadband Internet and Ethernet Systems, Whole House Audio/Video Systems, Lighting Control Systems, Integrated Security Systems, CCTV camera surveillance, Heating & Cooling systems, Motorized Systems, Water Systems, as well as many others that are controlled by the Stargate Interactive Home Controller.

This book Provides a ‘Step-By-Step’ approach to teaching the following:

How to layout the system based on the customer’s requirements
How to design, layout and position the Equipment Room in the home
How to design a wiring infrastructure
How to wire the distribution panel and interactive receptacles
How to select a service input hub and numerous types of distribution hubs
What type of cables and other components to use for each subsystem
How to perform the rough-in process
How to pull Service Input Cables and Drop Cables through all portions of the home
How to perform the trim-out process
How to perform cable terminations
How to test cables after the cables are pulled - and much more

This book does not stop there. It also includes a multitude of different types of control wiring for automated systems.

Chapter One concentrates on the overall wiring infrastructure of the home. It uses ‘step-by-step’ system design procedures, describes the cable pulling process and the wire termination procedures along with how the structured wiring distribution panel and hubs are configured. The structured wiring distribution panel is the central point of any structured wiring system. This panel is where the majority of cables are terminated to distribute data and control signals to subsystem components throughout the home. The remaining chapters provide information on each subsystem and their specific wiring requirements. They also describe what system components are used and how the cables are terminated to each component.

Also included in this manual is information on how to automate these subsystems to provide the user with an added level of convenience, comfort, entertainment, safety, security and energy management features. Most structured wiring system publications provide information about wiring infrastructures but do not offer much in the way of automated system capabilities at least not to the level that this manual provides. In other words, we take a step well beyond the conventional structured wiring system and introduce a multitude of automated control features. This will greatly increase the usefulness of the system while maximizing system benefits to make the most out of your structured wiring system.

A must-have manual for the do-it-yourselfer and the installing dealer alike!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #89615 in Books
• Published on: 2003-08
• Binding: Paperback
• 214 pages

Review
The Structured Wiring Design Manual provides consumers and contractors with all the information needed to design and install their systems. -- Elizabeth Napier, FutureSmart August 14, 2003

This book really delivers specific design information on how to turn your home into a networked futureproof smarthome. -- Matt Dean, Home Automation Systems, Inc., September 17, 2003

From the Publisher
The Structured Wiring Design Manual is the most detailed and useful networking publication we have seen. The step-by-step approach using the ‘Example Home' in this book provides the reader with a realistic perspective on how a home should be networked. This book also teaches advanced system control capabilities that other publications do not offer.

The Structured Wiring Design Manual is highly recommended for new Homebuyers and Contractors alike.

From the Author
I wrote the Structured Wiring Design Manual to help Homebuyers and Contractors ‘future proof’ new homes. Most people make their largest lifetime investment when purchasing their home. This means the importance of designing a new home that will not become obsolete cannot be over emphasized. To avoid obsolescence, you need to make sure your wiring infrastructure will support both present and future technologies.

Customer Reviews

This book is probably for beginners
This book is probably for beginners. My recommendation: before buying any books on structured wiring, read the technical guides at the following web pages. Then, if you still don't understand how to do it, you can purchase the books.
(These files are in pdf and html format. Advantage of PDFs and html docs is that you can download them to your computer and do keyword search, as well as printout all or part.)
-- http://www.swhowto.com/ & http://www.swhowto.com/Links.htm
-- www.hightechjobs.org/ch06.pdf and http://www.hightechjobs.org/resources.html
-- http://www.broadbandutopia.com/diyresforhom.html , which leads to http://www.broadbandutopia.com/levinnetinma.html , which leads to http://lib.store.yahoo.net/lib/broadbandutopia/LINman.pdf , which is Leviton's guide to planning and installation.

Old school
I'm the owner of a home-automation company in California. We do structured wiring, amongst other things. I purchased this book to see whether there might be some tips or techniques that my company could use to improve the quality of work we do. After receiving the book and reading it, I was very disappointed. The schematics and designs employed by the author are "old school." The equipment and products he promotes are also "old school." The chapter on lighting control is notably outdated, almost as aged as the chapter on security systems.

There are some basic principles of low-voltage that a beginner can learn from this book, such as wiring topographies and some of the tools of the trade, but those who work with these things everyday will be sorely disappointed with this book.

My advice is to stay away from this book and purchase soemthing more current. Smart Homes for Dummies is not a bad option.

Good Book
I recommend this book to anyone that is building a new home because it will tell you just what you need to be able to stay up with the technology needed to cummunicate and receive entertainment you will enjoy. It will keep your home from becoming obsolete when it comes to communication.