Cable Routing and Interference Issues

Don_T

Don_T

Junior Audioholic
I am finishing out my dedicated home theater room and have some questions that hopefully someone can answer.

1) The equipment is all inside of a closet. I am running all cables through the wall and attic. I have chosen the space between two studs in the closet that all of the cables run down through and terminate with wall plates / jacks. The component video is routed to the projector via an Impact Acoustics Rapid Run cable system. All cables run between the two studs: video, speaker cable and RG6 cable carrying the signals from the LG5 satellite dish. Will the RG6 cables introduce any interference into the video feed? If so, how much distance should there be separating the RG6 bundle from everything else?

2) The equipment is on metro shelving. I have routed all of the audio and video interconnects to one side of the rack and all power cables to the opposite side. The one place where A/V must cross a power cable the cables are secured at right angles to each other. Where should the satellite RG6 feed cables be routed; on the power side, A/V side or should the RG6 be routed away from both?

The goal here is obviously as little inductance interference as possible. Have I done all of this right? Any suggestions are welcome and appreciated.
 

porziob

Audioholic Intern
Cable Issues

RG6 is a shielded cable & can be run with the signal cables. I use a metro like rack (many mfgs. offer these) & run the signal cables & AC cables exactly as you wish to with ZERO problems (RFI, etc).
 
Don_T

Don_T

Junior Audioholic
That is what I thought. I was concerned because there is a lot of talk in the forums that state a common source of interference comes from digital satallite boxes.

I am getting an interference pattern that I can see on the screen when I play video sources fed through the component video cable. I believe that the cause of this is the fact that one of the cables used in the run is the cheap out-of-the-box kind. A new set of cables is comming from BlueJeans that should stop this.

I have to run some more cables in the attic and wall this week and thought if I needed to re-route anything now would be the time.

Any more thoughts on this matter out there?
 

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