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Re: Topband: underground cables question

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Subject: Re: Topband: underground cables question
From: Brian Pease <bpease2@myfairpoint.net>
Date: Thu, 5 Oct 2017 16:16:56 -0400
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I installed buryflex along with direct burial control cables last year.  I learned that it is best to directly bury the cables without conduit.  Water from condensation will eventually fill the conduit even if rain doesn't get in.  Possibly a different story in low humidity areas, I suppose, but I am in VT.  I have actually seen humidity fill multiple vertical pipes 2 feet high with condensation.

On 10/5/2017 2:56 PM, Wes Stewart wrote:
It's really dangerous to make these "all" statements.

I've been keeping rainfall numbers and reporting them to rainlog.org for 11 years.  My last measurable rain was 0.02 inches on Sept 14. The total for this year is 7.74 inches.  If I want my conduit filled with water I need to use a garden hose :-)

Wes  N7WS

On 10/5/2017 7:12 AM, Guy Olinger K2AV wrote:
2) All conduits will fill with water. That is their NATURAL state unless
you specifically and effectively mitigate it. At any time other than first
installed, filled with water is their most probable state.

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