During our last Polar freeze, I had some time to mess with some fiber on my network. The main goal was to pull a new fiber from the house to shop through my existing 2" PVC pipe buried many years ago. My main concern was ground potential rise and lightning. I run 8 cams off a POE+ switch in shop and that switch has a SFP port on it. These are great little switches and I have had one going for 2 years now. Fast forward to today I now have 3 of these same switches (one in shop and 2 in house). So I bought a OM3 cable on Amazon:
My worry was pulling the fiber through the conduit, which has power, doorbell, and alarm wires already in it as well as the cat5 cable to feed the shop. The fiber was premade as I did not want to attempt that stuff
I pulled the original cat5 back into house with a pull string. I then attached the fiber to the cat5 carefully taping it to the cable. The pull string was attached to the cat5. When I pulled the fiber back through, I had my wife putting wire lube generously on the cables. Gently pulling I t made it through the pipe without too much pulling pressure. All in all it was about a 80ft trip from switch to switch. Everything hooked right up and has run perfect.
Here are the switches:
So that worked so well, my next project was to run fiber up from my basement to attic to my PTZ cam mounted on my roof peak. This one has always bothered me about lightning. Here I was fortunate to have a 1" PVC conduit already ran for my old satellite dish, which we no longer use. I bought another 15m OM3 fiber and this time I used one of these up in the attic:
and I had to buy a transceiver for the other switch in basement:
This was just plug and play stuff and all is working great. I enjoyed learning a few things along the way as well. Don't laugh too much at my cable management
My worry was pulling the fiber through the conduit, which has power, doorbell, and alarm wires already in it as well as the cat5 cable to feed the shop. The fiber was premade as I did not want to attempt that stuff
I pulled the original cat5 back into house with a pull string. I then attached the fiber to the cat5 carefully taping it to the cable. The pull string was attached to the cat5. When I pulled the fiber back through, I had my wife putting wire lube generously on the cables. Gently pulling I t made it through the pipe without too much pulling pressure. All in all it was about a 80ft trip from switch to switch. Everything hooked right up and has run perfect.Here are the switches:
So that worked so well, my next project was to run fiber up from my basement to attic to my PTZ cam mounted on my roof peak. This one has always bothered me about lightning. Here I was fortunate to have a 1" PVC conduit already ran for my old satellite dish, which we no longer use. I bought another 15m OM3 fiber and this time I used one of these up in the attic:
and I had to buy a transceiver for the other switch in basement:
This was just plug and play stuff and all is working great. I enjoyed learning a few things along the way as well. Don't laugh too much at my cable management
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