I've done a number of long pulls in 2" conduit with cat6 shielded (and electrical too) you can make the pull go much easier if you:
- Stagger the cables and have at least one about 24" longer than the rest, loop that one cable back and tape it to a bundle of 2 or 3 other cables, tape smaller bundles together and then those bundles to the others until you've taped them all down around 12 to 18" beyond the last bundle or shortest cables. You should end up with a tapered end with a nice solid loop at the end. - If you use "jet line" or pulling tape, incorporate that into your bundles by wrapping it around and taping it off with the other bundles, this is usually done with the primary bundle (the one with the loop). If you have a pulling sleeve w/ swivel, use it, very handy. - Wire lube is helpful but I only use it if I'm pulling the max number of cables for that conduit size and/or there are more than a couple bends - Having someone 'push' the bundle through is as important as the person pulling, coordinating the pull / push process is also helpful. Mike Greene Rock Island Technology Solutions 360-378-5884 x201 From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Randy Cosby via Af Sent: Thursday, October 09, 2014 9:48 AM To: [email protected] Subject: [AFMUG] Pulling lots of cable through 2" conduit I have a project that has about 50 feet of 2" metal conduit running to the top of a water tank. There are two large-radius bends in the conduit. We want to pull as many cat5e cables as possible. We'll need at least 18. I found this table and compared the size of UBNT Toughcable. It looks to be in the same size range as the GigaLAN Cat6E cable, about .24". Based on their table, we should be able to pull 27 cables through. How would you pull a bundle like that? What do you use to attach the cables together before pulling? Just electrical tape? Any other suggestions? There are actually two conduits, but we will need to put some coax in the second one, but should have room for a few more ethernet cables as well. -- [cid:[email protected]]<http://www.infowest.com/> Randy Cosby InfoWest, Inc 435-674-0165 x 2010 infowest.com<http://www.infowest.com/> This e-mail message contains information from InfoWest, Inc and is for the sole use of the intended recipient(s) and may contain privileged, proprietary or confidential information. Unauthorized use, distribution, review or disclosure is prohibited. If you are not the intended recipient, please contact [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> by reply email and destroy the original message, all attachments and copies.
