grimreaper1014
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Hey fellas,
I am new here. Someone recommended this forum to me on another site. I hope I posted this in the right location. I would like to know how to properly shield a run of CAT5e with conduit. I have done some research around the internet but everything seams so confusing. Some people say to ground both ends. Some say no grounding is needed. Which has all managed to confuse the heck out of me. The run of CAT5e I am trying to shield is about 20ft long. I wanted to just run shielded CAT5e. However, I cannot find a place that will sell me the length I need. They all require that I purchase a spoil of 1,000ft. I would never use that amount in my life time. Like I said I just have one 20ft run. My local Lowes will cut cable to whatever length I need. They just don't have a shielded cable at all. I was told to use conduit. I purchased 50ft of flexible metal conduit.
I will try to do my best to explain my situation. My house sits on top of my garage and basement. All my utilities enter through the basement. There is a few different places in the corner of the basement to bring the CAT5e in. However, the problem is no matter which way you choose there are numerous electrical lines and you have to run along the side of the fuse box. The room that the CAT5e us being ran to is the living room. Which is right above the garage where the utilities come in. The garage ceiling is the living room floor. The hole that the CAT5e would need to be fed through to come up into the living room is right above the fuse box. Therefore, there is numerous electrical lines. Also, there is no way to cross them at right angles. The CAT5E will have to run right along side of them and the fuse box. There is way to many electrical lines to use conduit on. It would take forever.
What I would like to do is run the CAT5e from the NID on the side of my house to the wall jack in my living room in conduit. Can someone please explain to me the proper way to do this? Some articles say to pull a solid copper ground wire through the conduit. Others say to use a ground with a jacket on it. If the ground wire has a jacket on it how does it ground the conduit? This is what confused me since the ground wire would not actually be touching the conduit if it has a jacket. I could ground the one end to the ground inside the NID. What happens to the ground wire on the opposite end if it's not suppose to be grounded? Does the ground wire just get cut of on the end that is not grounded and lays in there? I don't want to use junction boxes. The conduit I have is small enough to tuck under the gap under the wall. However, I am confused as to how the ground wire would be grounded without a junction box. Would I just use a ground clamp at one end and connect it to the ground rod underneath the NID? Could someone please put this into perspective for me so I can understand what to do and how to do it? Thanks in advance it is greatly appreciated.
I am new here. Someone recommended this forum to me on another site. I hope I posted this in the right location. I would like to know how to properly shield a run of CAT5e with conduit. I have done some research around the internet but everything seams so confusing. Some people say to ground both ends. Some say no grounding is needed. Which has all managed to confuse the heck out of me. The run of CAT5e I am trying to shield is about 20ft long. I wanted to just run shielded CAT5e. However, I cannot find a place that will sell me the length I need. They all require that I purchase a spoil of 1,000ft. I would never use that amount in my life time. Like I said I just have one 20ft run. My local Lowes will cut cable to whatever length I need. They just don't have a shielded cable at all. I was told to use conduit. I purchased 50ft of flexible metal conduit.
I will try to do my best to explain my situation. My house sits on top of my garage and basement. All my utilities enter through the basement. There is a few different places in the corner of the basement to bring the CAT5e in. However, the problem is no matter which way you choose there are numerous electrical lines and you have to run along the side of the fuse box. The room that the CAT5e us being ran to is the living room. Which is right above the garage where the utilities come in. The garage ceiling is the living room floor. The hole that the CAT5e would need to be fed through to come up into the living room is right above the fuse box. Therefore, there is numerous electrical lines. Also, there is no way to cross them at right angles. The CAT5E will have to run right along side of them and the fuse box. There is way to many electrical lines to use conduit on. It would take forever.
What I would like to do is run the CAT5e from the NID on the side of my house to the wall jack in my living room in conduit. Can someone please explain to me the proper way to do this? Some articles say to pull a solid copper ground wire through the conduit. Others say to use a ground with a jacket on it. If the ground wire has a jacket on it how does it ground the conduit? This is what confused me since the ground wire would not actually be touching the conduit if it has a jacket. I could ground the one end to the ground inside the NID. What happens to the ground wire on the opposite end if it's not suppose to be grounded? Does the ground wire just get cut of on the end that is not grounded and lays in there? I don't want to use junction boxes. The conduit I have is small enough to tuck under the gap under the wall. However, I am confused as to how the ground wire would be grounded without a junction box. Would I just use a ground clamp at one end and connect it to the ground rod underneath the NID? Could someone please put this into perspective for me so I can understand what to do and how to do it? Thanks in advance it is greatly appreciated.