RE: External conduits

["Nigel Giddings" <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Quinten,

Sounds like a good idea. There should be no problems with the cables as
long as you have no joints in any of the external parts of the cables.

At the bottom remember to put in a drip loop. That is make sure the
cables slope downwards as they exit the building otherwise water could
find its way along the cable into the building. By putting a small loop
in the cable water will collect at the lowest point and 'drip' off.

You need to respect the bending radii of the cables as well...

Remember to use the normal method of calculation, list everything you
need and then double it ;-)

You should not run mains cable in this, you implied it was only signal
cables.

Lightning protection should not be required...

HTH

Nigel

-----Original Message-----
From: Quinten Uijldert [mailto:q.yahoogroups@xxxxxxx]
Sent: 12 November 2004 11:13
To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
Subject: [ukha_d] External conduits



Hi all,

I am in desperate need for cat5 going upstairs, and coax cable going
downstairs.  I was planning to get some black drain pipe and route it
through that so it doesn't look out of place on the house.  Now the
questions.  Can coax and cat5 live happily ever after inside a conduit?
The
cat5 would be used for network (and maybe, someday, kat5).  Does the
conduit
need any lightning protection?  It's only a 2 story house, so the most
that
would be on the outside is about 4m...

Q.

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