Carlon Structured Cable Management Systems Handbook - Low Res - Manual (Page 34)

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Section 10.
Interference and Installation
Issues Affecting Structured
Cable Management Systems
RESI-GARD ® GENERAL PURPOSE RACEWAY
Builders and their homeowners use Structured Cable
Management Systems to address their needs for ever
increasing levels of capability and convenience in their
homes and places of business for electronic devices
requiring cable connections for signals and data. Not
only are more types of cable needed today, but the
pace of technological innovation assures that in the
near future one will have to install additional, new
and different types of cables to meet growing needs.
Carlon Structured Cable Management Systems make it
easy to keep up with such changing needs.
Resi-Gard General Purpose Raceways and Accessories
are a new system of products from Carlon that is
accepted as safe and compliant with building codes
for Structured Cable Management Systems. The non-
power types of cable that are generally used in
Structured Cable Management Systems have special
functions to perform. It’s a good idea to consider what
is needed to be sure the cables and their electronic
systems will work well. A condition that the cables
can encounter that might affect their operation is
Electromagnetic Interference, or EMI.
WHAT IS EMI?
Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) is a potential
problem which can affect all kinds of electronic circuits,
including cables in raceways. Simply put, EMI is noise
in an electronic circuit caused by some other electrical
or electronic source.
How does it happen? When electrons move they
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