[ale] Fiber optic ethernet

[William Bagwell]

Aware of the need for sweep bends in conduit. Never pulled fiber, but have 
electric cable. Same max 360 degrees between openings for fiber? Going to 
have bends due to coming out of the ground to cross a creek, but will also 
have a pull box there as well.

Just checked prices and PVC conduit only starts to get obscene at 1 1/4". 
400' of 1" is only $40 more than 1/2"... My son just pointed out that 500' 
(50 sticks) is the price break and (for 1/2") 500' is only $6 more than 
400'. Guessing this similar for 1" but can not get the quantity prices to 
show on-line.

William

On Thursday 28 February 2013, Jim Kinney wrote:
> +1 on extreme caution on a pull.
>
> Use fish-cord wrapped around a _long_ section of the fibre jacket with the
> finished end fully wrapped in plastic and taped to the pull line. You will
> need to use at least a 3/4" conduit (with NO BENDS) or 1" with long
> sweeping bends (i.e a right angle requires a 1 foot bending radius) and
> pulling lube (thus the fully wrapped ends). You want the pulling strain
> distributed over several feet of the jacket so spiral-wrap cord to fiber
> and straight tape pull cord to fiber. That way the cord will cinch up on
> the jacket and the tape will help distribute the load as well and keep the
> cord from slipping.
>
> There are fibre to copper translators that are under $100 each fro 10/100
> connections. They use a wall wart for power. A pair of fibre-nics is only
> slightly more but will use one machine as a gateway.