I have a customer with Valcom 24V Paging horns in several bays using NEC Aspire phone system


The cable that has been running this has been there for probably 20 to 30 years (Cat 3 indoor cable) I may have installed it😳

They are having intermittent problems, so I am suggesting running a new cable



They have their own power supplies in each bay

The Cable is outside under an overhang (Loading Dock)

I was just going to run some cat six outside cable

Which I had in my truck until I realize that I only had about 400 feet but I needed about 700/800 feet I didn’t want to create any spices that were unnecessary

And then I was thinking, technically, I only need one pair
For audio. Then I thought about running just regular speaker wire, which I did actually run 18/4

Then I realize that Valcom recommends just running regular telephone or data cable twisted pair

Do you think it will be a problem using the stranded 18/4

I’m assuming it’s going to still work it’s just I’m just wondering if it would’ve been better to run the regular Telephone/ Data



Thanks

JD