David Schamus
\nSaid, “A whole house low voltage system … could easily reduce the amount of 120\/240 wiring in a home and reduce fire risk…”<\/p>\n
Tradeoffs are the major problem. The cost of half inch diameter copper wire to wire a home with 12V would be prohibitively expensive; and 5V would be 2.5 times more prohibitively expensive. It would greatly increase the amount of copper in the house wiring.<\/p>\n
Fire risk still depends on the power to the outlet. If the outlet needed 120 watts = 120V at 1 amp or 12V at 10 amps, an arc fault would still dissipate the same amount of power.<\/p>\n
But the amount of copper needed is the real problem. In other parts of the world with 230 or 240VAC, the wiring can be thinner while carrying the same power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
David Schamus Said, “A whole house low voltage system … could easily reduce the amount of 120\/240 wiring in a home and reduce fire risk…” Tradeoffs are the major problem. The cost of half inch diameter copper wire to wire a home with 12V would be prohibitively expensive; and 5V would be 2.5 times more <\/p>\n (Read More…)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[249,323],"tags":[1223],"class_list":["post-16307","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electrical-system","category-electronic-design","tag-low-voltage-wiring"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16307"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16308,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16307\/revisions\/16308"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16307"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16307"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rustybolt.info\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16307"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}