In article , Mike Tomlinson writes
Whatever the choice, mains warning tape should make it safer.
Agreed, white or black far better than blue or yellow.
In article , Mike Tomlinson writes
Whatever the choice, mains warning tape should make it safer.
Agreed, white or black far better than blue or yellow.
You only need one draw string, just make it > twice the length of the duct run and pull the excess in along with each cable. If you don't want to pull in alternate directions, temporally make the draw string into a loop
The old cable can be use to pull in the new (and draw string).
Careful some fibre doesn't like getting wet(*) and unless you buy a preterminated length the hire of splicer and learning how to use it to put the ends on will be a tad expensive.
Corning have a non-fusion splice system for putting the ends on their FTTP cables. Very quick but still not cheap, each end is about =A315 for the connector and the dinky little hand held device for fitting them several hundred.
(*) I think that may only apply to fibres designed to be blown rather than a enviromentally tough fibre cable designed to be pulled into a duct or strapped to cable trays etc.
Warning tape is mandatory isn't it? At least x inches above the duct/SWA and the material for y inches around the SWA being something without stones/sharp bits.
Can I repectfully remind the helpful contributors :-)
(1) A trench will be being dug for cold water mains plastic pipe and electrical mains armoured cable, so the only major cost consideration is the type of wire going into the trench, plus any required ducting/covering. I don't think that any wireless solution is going to outperform Cat5e on a point to point basis and wireless will, of course, require additional active powered components.
(2) Fibre has been touted, but although the fibre is ISTR about £1 per metre it also requires two additional items at around £35 each second hand on eBay. I assume that these are also active powered components.
Running one or more lengths of Cat5E - passive up to the bridge/router - cannot surely be more expensive than the other proposed solutions. As I have already said, I do have a reel of Cat5E in stock although I can't remember how much of it is left. I was trying (see original post) to establish the best way to run Cat5E undergound. Unless someone can suggest a technology that is cheaper than Cat5E, more reliable, with comparable or higher throughput (Gigabit full duplex) and which doesn't if possible require additional active components I will stick with Cat5E. If I run in a spare cable (or use ducting to allow the pulling of additional cables) then I can also use the Cat5E for any other signal handling I may wish to do from time to time.
Cheers
Dave R
Isn't there an appropriate warning tape for buried non-mains cables?
Rats are also likely to enjoy having plenty of insulation to strip. They are perfectly capable to chewing through SWA.
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