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You might check the rental prices for a vibratory plow...also they make an attachment for a sub-soiler to lay cable...
ethernet/coax cable plow
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CNC Dan
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On the miller welder forum, in the projects users section someone made a cable plow. It had a colter to cut the sod, then a shank like a sub soiler with a curved pipe welded to the back side. The wire is held on a spool above the top of the curved pipe, and the wire is feed into the pipe as the plow is pulled allong. With the addition of a small wheel to push the sod down, you might hardly know it was there.
michael.white
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Now you tell me
I connected my parents' and aunt's home together using coax and an ethernet-over-coax box. A lightning strike took out both boxes and about half my aunt's PC equipment.
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Here's what I had made up with a sub soiler. (It has a new wide point on it for drainage ditching and I can change the point back when done)
The tube needs to be flared at the top or you can strip cable if you are not careful. (Don't ask me how I know) Also there is a piece of angle iron welded to the back of the sub soiler to protect the tube in case you hit a large immovable object.
Works great and there is a little bit of tearing up of the lawn but it's a heck of a lot easier than digging a trench!
And yes I converted it to Cat 2 QH.
The tube needs to be flared at the top or you can strip cable if you are not careful. (Don't ask me how I know) Also there is a piece of angle iron welded to the back of the sub soiler to protect the tube in case you hit a large immovable object.
Works great and there is a little bit of tearing up of the lawn but it's a heck of a lot easier than digging a trench!
And yes I converted it to Cat 2 QH.
k0ua
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Now you tell me
I have always known. All you had to do was just ask me!
Sorry to hear about your strike, they can be devastating. Most people don't realize that for every lightning strike you see in the air, that earth currents flow from all directions in the ground to equalize that strike. When current flows in the earth, then any conductor in the ground will have a voltage induced in it from these flowing earth currents.
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I have always known. All you had to do was just ask me!
What can you do about buried power feeder lines? For example, I have 300' of 10-3 copper running underground to my pier, and 100 feet of 1/0 aluminum running underground from my generator. Any way to mitigate possible effects of a strike?
k0ua
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Yes, proper fast avalanche devices can do a lot. Of course some strikes are powerful enough to vaporize the best suppressors.
Ditek, or Polyphasor, Transtector.
http://www.protectiongroup.com/Transtector
joshuabardwell
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Honestly, I think you are being generous here. I would say that no Ethernet cable is okay to direct-bury, unless it is rated for it. You would just be wasting your time burying a non-rated cable.
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I concur.
If however it is only for a short period, you could get away with it. Short period is not long!
I once worked for a reticulation company that had micro amps of DC leakage into the cables. Within weeks the cables where useless. Standard insulation passes moisture so will corrode.
Weedpharma
If however it is only for a short period, you could get away with it. Short period is not long!
I once worked for a reticulation company that had micro amps of DC leakage into the cables. Within weeks the cables where useless. Standard insulation passes moisture so will corrode.
Weedpharma