Do You STARLINK

cosmokenney said:
I really like the idea of burying the cable. I currently have mine wrapped around a clothes line that is stretched from my detached garage to the house. I have been worried about UV degrading the cable. Just have to figure out how to run it since there is driveway pavement right up to the back patio. So, one or the other will have be be dug up. Hmm...
Click to expand...
Use proper conduit rather than water pipe. Avoid sharp bends, which effect the electrical signal and integrity of the wire inside.
 
bobfriesenhahn said:
Use proper conduit rather than water pipe. Avoid sharp bends, which effect the electrical signal and integrity of the wire inside.
Click to expand...

Pipe is pipe whether it's 'conduit' or 'water pipe'. Both are made to be buried with zero issues, but I concede one benefit of conduit is the long sweep 90's instead of the short elbows with say schedule 40 PVC if you're pulling longer runs of wire, but by no means will it hurt anything.

A trick to pulling longer lengths of wire thru the conduit is to make a 'parachute' that will fit inside whatever size pipe you use and tie surveying string to it, then stuff it into one end of the pipe. Make sure it's a fairly loose fit. On the other end suck it thru the run of pipe with a shop vac. Now you have your pulling string to yank the electrical wire thru.
 
Ddays said:
Pipe is pipe whether it's 'conduit' or 'water pipe'. Both are made to be buried with zero issues, but I concede one benefit of conduit is the long sweep 90's instead of the short elbows with say schedule 40 PVC if you're pulling longer runs of wire, but by no means will it hurt anything.

A trick to pulling longer lengths of wire thru the conduit is to make a 'parachute' that will fit inside whatever size pipe you use and tie surveying string to it, then stuff it into one end of the pipe. Make sure it's a fairly loose fit. On the other end suck it thru the run of pipe with a shop vac. Now you have your pulling string to yank the electrical wire thru.
Click to expand...
Great idea with the shop vac…oooh! Very Sucky!

 
Ddays said:
Pipe is pipe whether it's 'conduit' or 'water pipe'. Both are made to be buried with zero issues, but I concede one benefit of conduit is the long sweep 90's instead of the short elbows with say schedule 40 PVC if you're pulling longer runs of wire, but by no means will it hurt anything.

A trick to pulling longer lengths of wire thru the conduit is to make a 'parachute' that will fit inside whatever size pipe you use and tie surveying string to it, then stuff it into one end of the pipe. Make sure it's a fairly loose fit. On the other end suck it thru the run of pipe with a shop vac. Now you have your pulling string to yank the electrical wire thru.
Click to expand...
You can blow it through with a leaf blower too. And two long sweep 45’s will work about the same if not better as the long sweep 90.
 
I threaded the CAT6 cable through before I assembled the pipe and it was extremely easy. The buried connections are sealed with plastic cement, the above ground are not.

Mounting the antenna on the fence post was not my original plan, however it provided surprisingly good satellite coverage and made routing the cable and pvc way easier than some of the other options.
 
Ddays said:
Pipe is pipe whether it's 'conduit' or 'water pipe'. Both are made to be buried with zero issues, but I concede one benefit of conduit is the long sweep 90's instead of the short elbows with say schedule 40 PVC if you're pulling longer runs of wire, but by no means will it hurt anything.

A trick to pulling longer lengths of wire thru the conduit is to make a 'parachute' that will fit inside whatever size pipe you use and tie surveying string to it, then stuff it into one end of the pipe. Make sure it's a fairly loose fit. On the other end suck it thru the run of pipe with a shop vac. Now you have your pulling string to yank the electrical wire thru.
Click to expand...
Mostly the tight bends, which impact the geometry of the cable insulation/twists, but which also totally defeat maintenance or re-use of the conduit are the main concern. With proper conduit you can pull new cable.
 
Ddays said:
Gotcha Bob. I'll dig up the 200' of this shit I've had installed at my place for 25 years now & replace it with different elbows.....
Click to expand...
my techs do about 1500 installs a month low voltage, most of it in shifty conduit with tight bends. It’ll be fine,

Hell we use to direct bury drops, no conduit. It’ll be fine.

There’s engineering, then there’s real life
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Top Bottom