Proper Cable Installation: Avoiding UV Damage and Ensuring Longevity of outside cable.

hi this is Jim Gibson thank you for joining me on my Channel today very much appreciate it and if you remember and you like the stuff that we're going to be talking about give me a thumbs up and subscribe please that really counts I know a lot of people will call me and they'll say oh Jim I really like your videos and everything else I'm learning so much and it's very valuable to me well if you want to pay me back subscribe ring the bell and give me a thumbs up so let's get started we're looking at this cable here it's kind of interesting there's a bundle of six or seven cables Cat 5 cat 6 if you look there's some damage to this cable you notice what is that damage that damage is ultraviolet UV damage to the cable see this is what we call IW inside wire now inside wire can be cat 3 can be Cat 5 cat 5e cat 6 cat 7 it's just things that are designed to be inside of a building and this cable has been designed to be inside of a building but it has damage to the outside of plastic the sheathing that holds the interior wires protects them from the elements and things like that that's because this cable not rated for ultraviolet so when the Sun Shines on it it causes that damage to the cable you notice that you get damage there in two places probably all these cables are going to fail here shortly one of them if you can see right next to the black one has a little crease in it it's and it's facing up so it's Gathering water when rain comes and stuff like that and it's the wrong cable that's first of all now secondly we got another problem here the other problem is why did this person cable every single Jack in the house and they cabled it probably Cat 5 or cat 6 they cabled every single Jack in the house and they brought all the wires to the outside now why in a world do you need wires on the outside like that these wires have to go to a router have to go to a switch so that router and switch has to have a 110 AC plug to it it has to be able to power up now the patch panel obviously does not need power but the routers and the switches do and sometimes you in houses in residential things sometimes the router and the switches together in one unit but you need to have it as a router and switch now if you're going to do this house you're going to do it right the only thing you need sticking out that hole is you need one wire that's it going to AT&T going to Cox things like that and if Cox provides fiber optic cable or AT&T provides you a cable fiber optic cable or whatever ISP they're using then that should be the second wire going into the the building fiber optics is not really a wire but it looks looks like a wire when you put six of them together like I see here on this picture um the sun after a couple years disintegrates the exterior of the cable and it causes problems water gets into the cable and once the inner conductors are exposed as you can see some of them you can see where even the color on the conductors have actually been discolored and once they're exposed they their insulation is going to start disintegrating also you never ever ever run inside wire outside now I remember once a guy asked me he said I need direct burial cable and cable supply has all these cables and we can give you advice which one to buy um this one guy says I'm going to run a cable from my house to the barn and what type of cable should I use I said you should use direct burial and the best thing is take direct burial cable and stick it in a conduit That's rated for underground and I said or you can just bury it it's direct burial it it has a coating on the outside that's perfect and and would hold up in soil moisture and everything else and I answered all his questions but in this case if you're going from the house to the barn or from one building to another if you're going to go underground you're going to need the underground cable direct burial UV protected is the best and this case with all these seven or eight cables you shouldn't have that on the outside of a building you should only have what you need and it's called your feed cable and it should be just one now you can use that outside wire or or if you put a box you should have a box over your cable when it comes out the wall sometimes there's plastic boxes with snaps on the side you can also lock them so people can't get in them and mess with your cable but there should be a box there if you look at this picture again if you look at it a box would fit right over top of it in the hole the cables would come in from the back of the box and then you just wrap up the extra some extra cable and then when AT&T or Cox or something like that they put their box right up against yours and they just feed right across and then you can do it now the next big disaster I see here is you notice that the cable goes down and then it turns directly into the house so what happens is when it rains the water goes down and goes directly in the house so this needs a drip Loop what we call a drip Loop and what it should be is it goes down it passes the entrance to the house and then it turns around and comes back and then into the house so the water comes down on both sides and it will come to the bottom of the cable and drip off now again you're going to have outside cable if this is outside and you're not going to use a box things like that you got to put a drip Loop in it and you got to protect cable from the exterior rain and water and snow and sunlight and heat and cold and all that other stuff has to be protected especially against moisture has to be protected and against UV so in this case you don't actually have to have UV protected cable if you have a box all the cables are going to come together now where should they come together well I've seen them in garages that's okay but if you're in Texas or Arizona places like that sometimes garages can get pretty hot and you don't want to put your routers and your switches in the garage when it's like 120° but the best place is in the master bedroom closet and I've seen this a million times I've seen this in these big $5 million houses that that's where they put it well again some $5 million houses have a special closet with all their it stuff and all their video uh audio video equipment and everything else but normal houses okay that you're going to be cabling uh usually you want to put it in the closet and should put it close to a 110c outlet and what happens is is you take these boxes that are about 2 in thick and they can be recessed right into the wall uh and they have covers over them so you put your switch you put your router in there you put your patch panel don't don't do this cheesy stuff where people take the end of the cable and they put mod plugs at the end that's great for day one but when you wiggle and you're unplugging it and everything else and moving it around those mod plugs get loose and everything else and you start to have intermittent problems the hardest problem to solve is an intermittent problem I guarantee you that so just do it right do it professionally do not put mod plug ends on the end of these cables run them into a small patch panel a 12-port patch panel should handle any houses okay unless you got this huge uh building 12p patch panel now everything I'm talking about applies to both commercial and residential okay um and so anytime you exit the house or the building and you're coming outside you got to have a drip Loop and you got to use the proper cable or the proper protection for that cable in a case I recommend a case now I need you to subscribe and I also need thumbs up and ring the bell if this information is helping you and you like it and you enjoy it and everything else and you're learning things fantastic just give me a thumbs up and subscribe please everything I talk about you can buy from cablesupply.com uh so anyway these are the things that are wrong no drip Loop wrong cable and all the cables going outside there's no way you can manage this you know what these cables are good for pull string so you redo all this with a and you use them to attach to the right cable and you pull it in and then you pull each outlet to the master bedroom closet or hopefully not but to the garage that's another good place or some other place that's protected within the house you can get to and you can move your patch cords around on your patch panel into the back of the router or switch now everything I discussed today all the parts the uh Cat 5 cat 6 direct burial even something I did not mention which is aerial cable so all that equipment we talked about and everything else you need for cabling a commercial or residential property is on our website and remember cablesupply.com you have a wonderful day check out my website cablesupply.com and thank you for watching today you have a great day bye

Channel: CableSupply.com

Views: 401

Keywords: computer cable, home network, UV cable, lan cabling, local area network, net work cabling, category 6

Id: aG_I349LPfg

Length: 9min 44sec (584 seconds)

Published: Wed Jun 05 2024