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Is a Cat6 cable inside a plastic conduit that susceptible to getting hit by lightning though? IANAE (electrician), but per my understanding, putting copper cab
by rosser 13y ago
Is a Cat6 cable inside a plastic conduit that susceptible to getting hit by lightning though?
IANAE (electrician), but per my understanding, putting copper cable inside a PVC (or other plastic) conduit is among the worst things you can do; it gives the strike only one place to go: down the copper.
EDIT: I found a comment on a CCTV forum site that corroborates this: http://www.cctvforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=79496&sid=0e26864640365e658a8b0a6d54a50da3#p79496 http://www.cctvforum.com/viewtopic.php?p=79496&sid=0e2686464...
- pedrocr 13y agoThat's because you're protecting against the end-point getting hit (in your example a camera) and then using the cable to conduct. But if the APs are inside the buildings that's not what we're protecting against. Instead we're trying to not get the cable itself hit.