Extending CT clamp's range w/ via CAT5 cabling? #313
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I have a house with a separate annex (basically a standalone apartment) in the UK. The annex shares the main-house electricity supply, but has its own circuit breaker panel which is on the other side of a door about 3-4 meters from the main-house circuit breaker (interestingly, the master switch is in the annex which means it can kill power for the whole house, but that's another story).
Since I only have one Emporia unit (Vue 3), I was thinking if i extend the CT clamps from the annex breaker to the main breaker. The annex breaker-panel would use 10 ct-clamps, and the house breaker-panel would use the remaining 6 ct-clamps. Rather than splicing a bunch of cabling, i was thinking of re-using a few new/dedicated CAT5 cabling runs, as this has four pairs of cables. (it goes without saying that I would of course keeps these cat5 cabling separated from the breaker panels but not accessible to anyone walking by curious wanting to plug something into it).
My concern is that since these four pairs are twisted (at two different "rates" to prevent crosstalk), is the vAC signals from the CT clamps that's going to travel through the length of the cat5 cable be affected (being amplified or attenuated due to the turns), or is there some guidance on how to connect this so things don't go poof? Would I want to have one ct-clamp's worth of signals (black/white wire) to stay within one pair, or stagger them so they don't stay on the same pair?
Hopefully this isn't an absurdly stupid question/idea in the first place :-)
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