Straight PVC conduit is cheaper than flex.
If you used IMC, like Ken is saying, then it's rugged as hell and you'd
never get a better RF shielding than that.
------ Original Message ------
From: "Josh Luthman" <[email protected]>
To: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>
Sent: 2/2/2017 1:35:22 PM
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Flexible conduit up silo
Is the advantage of straight runs just a smoother line run inside?
We're only looking at a 76 foot silo.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:33 PM, Ken Hohhof <[email protected]> wrote:
Home Depot has too much made-in-China-HomeDepot-brand stuff now. I
like that Menards carries a lot of made-in-USA stuff. But for manly
stuff, maybe Farm&Fleet? We have Rural King but that might be an
Illinois thing. Serious electrical parts I head to Graybar. The
flexible conduit at big box stores tends to be crap. Also, I prefer
to do the straight runs with rigid or IMC and just use flexible for
the part that has to be … flexible. Like getting up onto the platform
at some grain legs.
From: Af [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Josh Luthman
Sent: Thursday, February 2, 2017 12:25 PM
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Flexible conduit up silo
There isn't enough beer in the county.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:23 PM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]> wrote:
Beer Goggles
From: Josh Luthman
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 11:18 AM
To:[email protected]
Subject: Re: [AFMUG] Flexible conduit up silo
Home Depot is in Piqua. There are no cute ones in Piqua.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 1:15 PM, Jaime Solorza
<[email protected]> wrote:
Lowe's is for chicks and girly men....Home Depot is a man's
store............Lots of cute ones too...zaz
On Feb 2, 2017 8:03 AM, "Josh Luthman" <[email protected]>
wrote:
Awesome, thank you sir.
Couldn't find anything at Lowe's that would match up or anything so
I have to assume this isn't the liquidtite brand.
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
On Thu, Feb 2, 2017 at 9:58 AM, Chuck McCown <[email protected]>
wrote:
If you use liquidtite and use the proper connectors, you don’t
need to put in a drip loop or 180 to keep the water out. Any bend
you make in that stuff makes it harder to pull the wires through.
But if you can pull the wires and you don’t have connectors then
what you are describing is just fine.
From: Josh Luthman
Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2017 7:56 AM
To:[email protected]
Subject: [AFMUG] Flexible conduit up silo
This is our first time ever using conduit. Lowe's didn't have any
goose necks or anything so I'm thinking I'll run the conduit up
(so the opening is facing earth) and then do a 180* down the silo
and into the shack/our NEMA box. Is this what everyone else does
or is there an alternative?
Josh Luthman
Office: 937-552-2340
Direct: 937-552-2343
1100 Wayne St
Suite 1337
Troy, OH 45373
