Halfway in a golf course. Sprinkler system goes off everynight and it floods
the box. Keeping the greens pretty is more important then the phone.
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From: JRS <stei...@pacbell.net>
Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com
Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:02:49
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
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Subject: Re: [H] Insane method for protecting an ethernet join in a hole of
water
I'm still wondering why the box fills with water every nite?
If it was me, I'd move the box. :)
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JRS
stei...@pacbell.net
Facts do not cease to exist just
because they are ignored.
> Here's the deal. At 600', a box in the ground (about 2' down) joins. Cable
>
>comes in both ways. Joins there (just couplers basically). But the box
>fills
>with water every single night all the way.
>
>
> The wire installer tried a weathertight box (still leaked in once submerged,
>more designed to resist rain) and they've tried wrapping with electrical
>tape,
>etc.. in the end, same thing happens, short across live wires and down she
>goes.
>
> So, a guy at the meeting, the sprinkler systems person proposed something I
>thought was ridiculous but I've thought about since all day. Get a can of
>Crisco, wrap the wires, and run them down into the crisco can, seal the top,
>let go. Crisco would hold out the water and it's non-conductive. This is
>after they suggested peanutbutter.
>
> We all laughed like crazy when these were suggested. Now I'm wondering how
>dumb of an idea this would actually be... worst case, you're just out the $5
>to try...
>
