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by Seeya says Dont Ever Give Up on September 20th, 2009
why bother? run seperate lines so you do not have to trouble shoot all the problems when something go's wrong!
by The Chief on September 19th, 2009
Yes.
However, there are coupling problems you may encounter.
You can run AC and DC cables in the same cableway next to each other.
But you need to be careful exactly WHAT you are running next to each other, as well.
For example, if you are running low voltage signal cables alongside higher voltage AC cables, you can get induced voltages coupled from the higher voltage AC cabling to the lower voltage cabling, whether it is AC or DC.
This can lead to rather irritating problems with the induced voltages in the DC cabling causing intermittent problems with the equipment it is connected to.
You can also have a single cable which has both an AC and a DC component being transmitted at the same time.
For example, you can have a DC voltage being transmitted from a power supply to several pieces of equipment and also have an AC signal riding that same path which can be monitored to verify there is no interuption in continuity at any place along that path.
For equipment which monitors that AC signal, the DC component is blocked. For equipment that uses the DC voltage, the AC is filtered out.
by Couchyam on August 3rd, 2009
Yes, but I think that all it would do is make the Voltage go from +V and -V to V+Vo and -V+Vo. I'm not sure what you'd do with that.
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