speaker wire inelectric conduit

[audiohack]

We recently installed an island barbeue in our back yard about 30 feet from the house. We have a pair of cambridge soundworks outdoor 62 speakers mounted to the house but if you play them loud enough for the people sitting at the island they overpower the patio area and piss off the neighbor. I want to put another pair at the island but the only conduit under the patio has electric running through it. Is their any type of wire/cable made to run along next to electric wires or are there any "good" wireless outdoor speakers?

 

[mtrycrafts]

We recently installed an island barbeue in our back yard about 30 feet from the house. We have a pair of cambridge soundworks outdoor 62 speakers mounted to the house but if you play them loud enough for the people sitting at the island they overpower the patio area and piss off the neighbor. I want to put another pair at the island but the only conduit under the patio has electric running through it. Is their any type of wire/cable made to run along next to electric wires or are there any "good" wireless outdoor speakers?

Don't run it in or next to the power cable, especially that distance.

Use low voltage landscape wire, 12ga. It buries direct.

 

[saurabh]

Just imagine what an electric short or leakage can do to your AMP or audio equipment.....I hope you have insured your equipment before you even think of doing that.

 

[BMXTRIX]

The bottom line answer is no on the wire. You can't run low voltage in the same conduit as high voltage per the National Electric Code (NEC). If you have a short in the high voltage side, then it comes back and hits you equipment, which will promptly be fried... Then, to make things even more fun, starts a fire because nothing in your equipment was designed for 120v over the speaker output, so you burn up (let's be nice) half your home... Then there is an investigation and it is tracked to a violation of the NEC. Insurance now denies your claim.

Not really something you even want to consider.

Direct burial is definitely the way to go and there are many wires available for this and they can be run a LONG way without any issues at all. Wireless I have not heard of anything that good. But, outdoors... and you apparently have 120v available to you at that location... so maybe something could be figured out.

 

[RLA]

Hello
One other alternative if you can't use direct burial and the distance is not to great is to use wireless outdoor speakers They have actually improved the performance enough now that they are functional for outdoor applications where wiring can't be installed
AR and Advent have very inexpensive models