Why Do Our Wires Make Waves In Photos?

We get asked this more than you would think so we figured a quick blog post would help explain.

When running new cabling in a residential setting, the low voltage contractor must be aware of something called Electro-Magnetic Interference. The basics of it are that high voltage cables that power your lights and plugs in your home emit a field around them of magnetic interference. These invisible waves are powerful enough that if a lower voltage cable is ran in parallel with it, the EMI from the high voltage can disrupt the signal of the lower power cables. When dealing with internet, any kind of interference means loss of internet connection.

in order to combat this, anywhere high voltage cables are ran down walls, we jump from stud to stud to keep from too much of the cable being parallel with the high voltage. In instances where the cable comes out of the box, we wire the cables to each stud with a bread tie like little wire so in the future if we needed more cable to do something, you can pull down on the wire and it will break off those ties in the walls and provide you with more wire.