Quote:
Originally Posted by 1captain
...... i will give you some insite on a coax that you didnt list, which is flooded coax. what i would do if it was mine i would put in a flooded coax with out the pvc an that is basicly for my area south central fl, dont know up in va. reason why is down here when pvc is down in the ground moisture will collect in it due to our high humidty, an the coax will be laying in the pipe in some water, ....
|
Interesting. I never heard of flooded coax.
Where I used to live, down in Md, I put my coax in pvc pipe that didn't have any way for the water to drain out, and like you said, it ended up meaning that the coax was submerged as the pipe filled with water and never emptied.
Up here in Maine, from that first experience, I decided not to put the coax in pipe, but instead just bury the coax directly in the ground. Well the problem with that, was that with the rocks and stones in the ground, and the freezing/thawing and running tractors and cars over the buried wires, the problem wasn't water, but physical damage to the coax. So I went back to re-stringing my coaxes in conduit, but I made sure that the water could drain out. I'm using the conduit just to protect the coax from being cut or crushed by rocks. I can't remember what size conduit I'm using, but I think it's close to 2". I have 2 runs of ribbon cable and about 3 runs of plain RG6, so it's getting a bit crowded. I only have about 40' of conduit, which goes from my dishes to my garage, then upstairs in the garage across to a passageway to my house on the other side of the garage, into the 2nd floor of my house, then following the water pipes down to the basement where my receivers are. Total run is around 250' even though as the crow flies it's only 150', but with all the ups and downs I've added a lot of extra coax.
OH... and having a tractor with a front end loader and back-hoe helps when digging trenches for the conduit. Not as neat as a ditch witch type thing I'm sure, but on the other hand, there are rocks up here that it took a backhoe to get out.