Trench fiber, cat6 etc

[Firefighter]

So I'm running data to the chicken coop where I'll have a poe switch for cameras around the coop one tree house.

I didn't want to spend $250 on a trencher so I borrowed a friend's line hand trencher for cables. Now I'm torn between laying fiber, cat6, or even conduit. I'm running 1/2pex for water as well.

Photos attached, video below.

Video.

 

[mat200]

So I'm running data to the chicken coop where I'll have a poe switch for cameras around the coop one tree house.

I didn't want to spend $250 on a trencher so I borrowed a friend's line hand trencher for cables. Now I'm torn between laying fiber, cat6, or even conduit. I'm running 1/2pex for water as well.

Photos attached, video below.

Video.

I really like the idea of conduit runs, the physical protect is useful vs Uncle Joe's hand shovel helping Mom plant flowers someday in the future ..

 

[Firefighter]

I stopped over thinking it and dropped a dual cat5e direct burial cables from home depot. Above that I dropped in a 1/2 pex line for water. It's 9-12 inches deep on average where I checked.

Ideal world it would be 1 inch conduit with 2 fiber lines. But that's totally unnecessary.

Will share a video.

Thanks!

 

[looney2ns]

If you have lightning storms in your area, the fibre would have been the better option.

Hopefully, you did use shielded cat5e and will properly ground the shield at the house end.

 

[Ri22o]

For future reference, you can use Pex as conduit.

 

[Firefighter]

Thanks guys. Just needed to get something in the ground and working. I'll maybe trench a fiber in conduit this summer. Just have an issue with a neighbor I need to get covered. ( Concerned he'll kill the chickens )

 

[wpiman]

Thanks guys. Just needed to get something in the ground and working. I'll maybe trench a fiber in conduit this summer. Just have an issue with a neighbor I need to get covered. ( Concerned he'll kill the chickens )

Do you have roosters?

I have a had conduit like that. I put it on the edge outside the grass where no one will probably ever dig.

 

[kolt_]

Ubiquiti's wireless point to point bridges would also work and maybe even be the best solution for this case if it's cameras you are just interested in connecting. But wired is better than wireless obviously and since you already trenched it, no point in considering that. Fiber is better for reasons already mentioned and has been relatively inexpensive, I just recently bought pre-terminated cable from

https://www.lanshack.com/

and it worked out very well. Just need at least media converters (or switches with sfp ports) & the correct sfp modules

 

[pal251]

If you had ran fiber, how would you power the cameras remotely?

 

[Flintstone61]

wireless point to point requires electricity out at the chicken coop...POE will be the most straightforward. nice thing about some plastic conduit is the use of pull strings. you always want to pull a telecom style pull string along with the cable run. I used fiberglass push sticks to get the wire and the string thru one 10 foot section at a time. laying out in the grass. then i glued them together and put it in the trench.
Another method is to use suction( think shop vac, or compressed air (pressure) to get only the string thru taped and tied to a little wad of lightweight material like Bounty paper towel etc.,,, then pull your wire-cable-fiber whatever thru the pipe using electrical tape at the head of the wire/cable etc.

 

[Heavyopp]

I've used the shop vac method many times.
Lightweight arborist throw line with a piece of plastic bag tied to the end. I've done over 150 feet at a time that way. 1" conduit.

 

[Sybertiger]

I personally like conduit as you can easily change out the cable as technology changes. I'd still run direct burial Cat6 through the conduit.

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This is by far the longest run I have at 160 feet of direct burial Cat6. The cable runs from the back corner of the house where my office is that has all the BI server, UPS and POE switches. It runs up through the ceiling of the closet and into the attic to the farthest corner of the attic above the garage then down the interior wall before it goes outside using the same hole that the irrigation control wires go outside to the other side of the garage wall. Three months ago I had prepared for the eventuality of cams on the oak trees near the street. The...

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[Firefighter]

For future reference, you can use Pex as conduit.

What size for fiber?

 

[Ri22o]

What size for fiber?

Never ran fiber, but the run I am looking to make for ethernet and low voltage will use 3/4".

 

[Firefighter]

Never ran fiber, but the run I am looking to make for ethernet and low voltage will use 3/4".

I think I'm just gonna run 3/4" pex for the fiber in white so it's not blue or red. Then throw down the conduit for the power. Idk direct burial wire sounds alot easier than pvc conduit

 

[Firefighter]

Do you have roosters?

I have a had conduit like that. I put it on the edge outside the grass where no one will probably ever dig.

I do not. They're not allowed where I'm at in the city. We have an acre, no hoa but the neighborhood behind us is newer, smaller lots with hoa. I've had the city contact me when I started the coop because of a complain filed. I then had to submit a site plan, plot plan, design plan and pay a permit for the chicken coop construction and a hen permit. Technically they haven't inspected it so I can use it yet. Soon.