Chat with a Sparky at a jobsite last Tuesday changed how I look at shielded cable runs

He said he watched a contractor run Cat6 parallel to a 480v line for 40 feet and the whole network tanked until they ripped it out. Anyone else ever get burned by assuming separation distances don't matter in tight ceilings?

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black.margaret2d ago

Yeah we had to rerun a whole data line after it kept dropping packets next to a giant motor feeder.

the_kelly2d ago

Holy hell! My buddy runs a small IT company and had to replace 200 feet of cable after it got strapped to a conduit with 277 lighting ballasts.