Chris, Is there some lucky reason you always have these truly astounding incidents? Never-mind..... :) I second/third the Silicone caulk route. When I worked, we called it "RTV." Best, Duncan
On 07/22/2010 15:21, tmse...@rlrnews.com wrote:
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. Sent via BlackBerry -----Original Message----- From: JRS<stei...@pacbell.net> Sender: hardware-boun...@hardwaregroup.com Date: Thu, 22 Jul 2010 12:02:49 To:<hardware@hardwaregroup.com> Reply-To: hardware@hardwaregroup.com 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. :) -- 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...
