Ok.. One of my other tasks coming up.. I've got a house with two sprinkler controllers.. One for the front and one for the back.. I'd like to eliminate the front one and run that single front yard valve from the rear controller -- a wire span of perhaps 100ft.
However, part of the line would need to be run underground from the front of the house (where the valve is located) to the rear of the garage where the controller is -- as they're separate structures. So, I've got existing conduit buried below grade in a trench I dug about 7-8 years back -- this conduit has three 12 gauge AC wires (IIRC) running through it to send AC from the house main panel to a sub-panel in the garage which in turn feeds power to outlets, lights, and whatnot.
So, since sprinkler solenoids are controlled by AC voltage (24VAC if I recall), I was wondering if it's OK or not to run the heavy duty sprinkler wire through the shared conduit (a run of ~20 feet) along side the 110VAC already present.. I realize IF the solenoids were DC they might have some sort of signal induced on the wiring from the AC signal sine-wave but if they're both AC does that still happen and if so, would it cause any problems for a solenoid in this sort of situation?
Thanks!
However, part of the line would need to be run underground from the front of the house (where the valve is located) to the rear of the garage where the controller is -- as they're separate structures. So, I've got existing conduit buried below grade in a trench I dug about 7-8 years back -- this conduit has three 12 gauge AC wires (IIRC) running through it to send AC from the house main panel to a sub-panel in the garage which in turn feeds power to outlets, lights, and whatnot.
So, since sprinkler solenoids are controlled by AC voltage (24VAC if I recall), I was wondering if it's OK or not to run the heavy duty sprinkler wire through the shared conduit (a run of ~20 feet) along side the 110VAC already present.. I realize IF the solenoids were DC they might have some sort of signal induced on the wiring from the AC signal sine-wave but if they're both AC does that still happen and if so, would it cause any problems for a solenoid in this sort of situation?
Thanks!