The heat is not a problem. If the cable is rated for exterior use
then you can put it outside, and not worry about it. You can lay it
across the lawn, or string it like a cloths line if you weren't
concerned about appearance, and the wire would be fine...until
somebody tripped on it or pulled on it. The difficulty is how to make
it disappear, and not just tack it onto the house, or make a bobby
trap. If the cable is rated for burial then you can bury it, but code
requires you go down 18 inches. Direct burial cable is expensive, and
hard to work with.
The advantages to using conduit are better, but not necessary,
shielding from interference,...better, but not necessary, protection
from the elements... and the biggest advantage is that you can pull
more then one wire, and you can come back some time in the future,
and replace it with ease, if need be.
You may want to consider hiring an electrician to pull the wire for
you. He will have the experience, tools and techniques to pull wire
through the walls, the attic, and crawl spaces. If he knows what he
is doing he should be able to make it as indivisible as it can be
short of opening the walls up.
m
At 12:58 PM 7/21/2011, you wrote:
thinking about doing a shallow bury of the cable along the edge of
the house...it would run free under the deck...then back under
ground...then into crawl space....then tacked to the floor...then
into hole...should keep cable from getting hot...and this cable is
on the SUPER hot side for house...100+ degrees out there now. Direct
sun in the afternoon in summer.
On 7/21/2011 3:10 PM, Gaffer wrote:
The gel is not much of an issue running the cable, but you have to
clean it off the ends to terminate the cables, and it's like
Vaseline...
The problem with gel is that it expands as the temperature rises and
oozes out of the connector ! The trick is to use sockets and a ty-wrap
around the cable about an inch back from the socket. Though even that
won't stop the gel completely. It seems to come out but never gets
sucked back in.
