Topband: underground cables question

[Brian Pease]

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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