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Grayson Evans

Grayson Evans has spent more than two decades in residential systems and home networking, building and teaching custom electronics courses. He founded The Training Dept. and co-founded Training Reels, is a CEDIA Certified instructor, and has written two books on home automation and hundreds of trade magazine articles.

5 articles

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HOMETOYS

Getting VoIPed on a Home Network

A Little Background on VoIP VoIP carries telephony signals as digital audio, typically reduced in data rate using speech data compression techniques...

A person in a blue shirt installing electrical wiring in pink fiberglass wall insulation
HOMETOYS

Retrofitting in Insulated Walls

Retrofitting in Insulated Walls Author: Grayson Evans, Training Dept. Seminars – Copyright 2008 Drilling up or down, or fishing cable in insulated...

HOME TECH

Cable Labeling Tips

Every cable that you install on a job MUST be labeled. No excuses. Labeling will not only save you lots of time on the job site, but will greatly...

HOME NETWORKING

A Solution to the NID Nuisance

Many installers I’ve worked around obviously don’t know a good way of terminating cabling to the NID (Network Interface Device) location. NIDs are...

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