Extend Inverter Remote with Phone Cord?
Merry Xmas everyone. So the question is if the inverter remote on/off is on one of those phone line looking cords with the same sort of jack but is too short, how can you add phone line to make it lo...
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BFL13 wrote:
The Vector's 8 bar jack has four wires. I am not clear if it is safe to use the end to end 8 bar coupler and an 8-wire Ethernet cable extension. Will the 4 Vector wires meet up all along the way to the correct inverter's socket bars? Can the two outside bars each side with no wires become "live" somehow and light up the unused bars inside the Vector socket doing who knows what in there?
It seems like it should work.
I guess the four wires on the Vector must be two for the remote's green on/off light and the other two are for its red alarm light. Can't think what the extra two wires on the Xantrex are for.
If there's nothing connecting to the extra wires, then they're not connected to anything... ;)
It's not a problem to have extra unused conductors; it's the same as plugging a two-prong AC appliance into a three-prong extension cord.
