In your country, do you use pipe to run wire through very much?

[Mike Johnson]

It was in the USA so no T&E, five circuits = fifteen cables?

 

[westward10]

Must admit some of that is a work of art. There is obviously some real pride in your work taking place there.

 

[Dustydazzler]

It was in the USA so no T&E, five circuits = fifteen cables?

potentially , unless they could share one oversized cpc ... or use the conduit as a cpc but I’m not sure if that is allowed over there ...

they do have Romex cable which is very similar to our lsf twin & earth cable

 

[Megawatt]

potentially , unless they could share one oversized cpc ... or use the conduit as a cpc but I’m not sure if that is allowed over there ...

they do have Romex cable which is very similar to our lsf twin & earth cable

I’ll have to say guys and girls that their is no cables in them conduits. We pull all single stranded wire. The big pipes probably have bigger wire in them for feeders. I’ve seen 100 # 14 control wires in some of the bigger conduits. I’ve wired a lot of European equipment and a lot of times they will bring there own cables with them from across the pond and if that’s the case we use tray cable. We can’t mix analog with digital inputs and outputs in the same conduit and power feeders in there own conduit and communication cat-5 cables in there own conduit. We do not like pulling European cables in conduit because the outside diameter of the cable makes us have to run at least 3 inch conduit. Yes most of that conduit looks awesome but I’m a perfectionist on conduit and I seen some conduits that the gap between Some of them is not consistent. I’ve worked for Germans, Italy, Finland engineers, etc who all use cables. In the US on a job that big mostly we have to go by the prints who dictates what we do. On big jobs we have people that just run conduit and nothing else, people who mount all the pull cans and panels. It’s so much different over here.

 

[Dustydazzler]

I’ll have to say guys and girls that their is no cables in them conduits. We pull all single stranded wire. The big pipes probably have bigger wire in them for feeders. I’ve seen 100 # 14 control wires in some of the bigger conduits. I’ve wired a lot of European equipment and a lot of times they will bring there own cables with them from across the pond and if that’s the case we use tray cable. We can’t mix analog with digital inputs and outputs in the same conduit and power feeders in there own conduit and communication cat-5 cables in there own conduit. We do not like pulling European cables in conduit because the outside diameter of the cable makes us have to run at least 3 inch conduit. Yes most of that conduit looks awesome but I’m a perfectionist on conduit and I seen some conduits that the gap between Some of them is not consistent. I’ve worked for Germans, Italy, Finland engineers, etc who all use cables. In the US on a job that big mostly we have to go by the prints who dictates what we do. On big jobs we have people that just run conduit and nothing else, people who mount all the pull cans and panels. It’s so much different over here.

in the u.k we generally pull single cables (wires) in conduit pipes , you do get some people pull in Romex style cable in conduit but that generally more in houses.
europans do pull in round cable in their conduit but that’s more flexi plastic type conduit tubing I think...I have seen Europea conduit that doesn’t even have bends / elbows

 

[Megawatt]

in the u.k we generally pull single cables (wires) in conduit pipes , you do get some people pull in Romex style cable in conduit but that generally more in houses.
europans do pull in round cable in their conduit but that’s more flexi plastic type conduit tubing I think...I have seen Europea conduit that doesn’t even have bends / elbows

No @ Dustydazzler we generally don’t pull romex in pipe and romex is mostly used in domestic applications

 

[Dustydazzler]

No @ Dustydazzler we generally don’t pull romex in pipe and romex is mostly used in domestic applications

I didn’t say you pull Romex in pipe , I said we here in the U.K. sometimes put Romex or as we call it twin and earth cable in conduit

but generally it’s single wires...

 

[Mike Johnson]

In European Domestic installations it is single cables that are normally pulled in Flexible conduit, round cable as you have called it is generally double insulated and just clipped in place, although this is allowed but frowned upon.

 

[stevethesparks]

Cant help note the lack of pull-in boxes on some of those installations, but as said some excellent work.

 

[Dustydazzler]

In European Domestic installations it is single cables that are normally pulled in Flexible conduit, round cable as you have called it is generally double insulated and just clipped in place, although this is allowed but frowned upon.

I have seen quite a lot of wiring done in Greece in white conduit and round cable (like FP cable) run inside the conduit system...