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Damproof cable
To avoid condensation creeping, via capillary action, between copper
conductor and the sleeving from an open end into otherwise sealed section. How to make or what sort of term or construction to look for in cable specs? -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ |
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"N_Cook" wrote in message ... To avoid condensation creeping, via capillary action, between copper conductor and the sleeving from an open end into otherwise sealed section. How to make or what sort of term or construction to look for in cable specs? -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ In the ham radio fraternity, we seal open cable ends with self-amalgamating tape, silicon rubber compound, hot-melt glue, glue lined heat-shrink tubing, or a combination of them. Water ingress by capilliary action, is a common problem with coaxially constructed cables, and some types of RF connector, when used outdoors. Arfa |
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N_Cook wrote: To avoid condensation creeping, via capillary action, between copper conductor and the sleeving from an open end into otherwise sealed section. How to make or what sort of term or construction to look for in cable specs? Sealing the outer sheath into an enclosure is quite easy as glands exist for this purpose with round cables. But to be sure moisture can't enter a stripped back cable it needs to be potted in a suitable compound. Such things are available from any decent electrical wholesaler. -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ -- *One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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Dave Plowman (News) wrote in message
... In article , N_Cook wrote: To avoid condensation creeping, via capillary action, between copper conductor and the sleeving from an open end into otherwise sealed section. How to make or what sort of term or construction to look for in cable specs? Sealing the outer sheath into an enclosure is quite easy as glands exist for this purpose with round cables. But to be sure moisture can't enter a stripped back cable it needs to be potted in a suitable compound. Such things are available from any decent electrical wholesaler. -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ -- *One nice thing about egotists: they don't talk about other people. Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. What would be nice is a trade-name or process name for ,say, conductor moulded into sheathing so if the open end sealing fails it cannot migrate along the cable. Basicly a cable that you cannot use a wire-stripper tool on and cleave the sheathing away without leaving sheathing adhering to the conductor, presumably single strand. -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ |
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not coaxial cable in this case
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"N_Cook" wrote in message ... To avoid condensation creeping, via capillary action, between copper conductor and the sleeving from an open end into otherwise sealed section. How to make or what sort of term or construction to look for in cable specs? -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ Probably better to just sleeve/seal the ends if and when required. There are lots of heatshrink products available for this. Gareth. |
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Gareth Magennis wrote in message
... "N_Cook" wrote in message ... To avoid condensation creeping, via capillary action, between copper conductor and the sleeving from an open end into otherwise sealed section. How to make or what sort of term or construction to look for in cable specs? -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ Probably better to just sleeve/seal the ends if and when required. There are lots of heatshrink products available for this. Gareth. But heatshrink leaves a capilliary path. If there was a way of making sure the conductor stayed reasonably axial then a few inch length of hotmelt glue around the conductor and then remelted/compressed in the process of contracting heatshrink sleeving around that, would probably be ok. After the first few inches bond to normal sleeving. It is just a matter of avoiding damp migration into the start of the cable. -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ |
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"N_Cook" wrote in news:fv9qdq$ed1$1
@registered.motzarella.org: But heatshrink leaves a capilliary path. Depends on the heat shrink. Some contain a liner that melts and gives an airtight seal. -- bz please pardon my infinite ignorance, the set-of-things-I-do-not-know is an infinite set. remove ch100-5 to avoid spam trap |
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"N_Cook" wrote in message ... Gareth Magennis wrote in message ... "N_Cook" wrote in message ... To avoid condensation creeping, via capillary action, between copper conductor and the sleeving from an open end into otherwise sealed section. How to make or what sort of term or construction to look for in cable specs? -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ Probably better to just sleeve/seal the ends if and when required. There are lots of heatshrink products available for this. Gareth. But heatshrink leaves a capilliary path. No, some heatshrink does. http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/83969.pdf Gareth. |
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"N_Cook" wrote: To avoid condensation creeping, via capillary action, between copper conductor and the sleeving from an open end into otherwise sealed section. How to make or what sort of term or construction to look for in cable specs? I think the buzz-word you're looking for is "solid core." |
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Gareth Magennis wrote in message
... "N_Cook" wrote in message ... Gareth Magennis wrote in message ... "N_Cook" wrote in message ... To avoid condensation creeping, via capillary action, between copper conductor and the sleeving from an open end into otherwise sealed section. How to make or what sort of term or construction to look for in cable specs? -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ Probably better to just sleeve/seal the ends if and when required. There are lots of heatshrink products available for this. Gareth. But heatshrink leaves a capilliary path. No, some heatshrink does. http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/83969.pdf Gareth. No it doesn't, that pdf is for heatshrinking down onto cable and connectors, not stopping moisture getting along the 0.8mm to 1mm diameter cores of cables Thinking of farnell/cpc in the UK. Who else here watches the "Gadget Show" ? Lead in or lead out graphic of CPC testing? one of their ICs by zapping a discharge over the pins -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ |
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"N_Cook" wrote in message ... Gareth Magennis wrote in message ... "N_Cook" wrote in message ... Gareth Magennis wrote in message ... "N_Cook" wrote in message ... To avoid condensation creeping, via capillary action, between copper conductor and the sleeving from an open end into otherwise sealed section. How to make or what sort of term or construction to look for in cable specs? -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ Probably better to just sleeve/seal the ends if and when required. There are lots of heatshrink products available for this. Gareth. But heatshrink leaves a capilliary path. No, some heatshrink does. http://www.farnell.com/datasheets/83969.pdf Gareth. No it doesn't, that pdf is for heatshrinking down onto cable and connectors, not stopping moisture getting along the 0.8mm to 1mm diameter cores of cables Thinking of farnell/cpc in the UK. Who else here watches the "Gadget Show" ? Lead in or lead out graphic of CPC testing? one of their ICs by zapping a discharge over the pins -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ Nope, can't translate that at all. Gareth. |
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N_Cook wrote: To avoid condensation creeping, via capillary action, between copper conductor and the sleeving from an open end into otherwise sealed section. How to make or what sort of term or construction to look for in cable specs? The only wire that meets your requirement is intended for direct burial, and is called 'Flooded cable' Nasty stuff to work with. It is made for CATV, Networking and TELCO applications. Stock up on good industrial hand cleaner and a bale of paper towels if you decide to use it. -- http://improve-usenet.org/index.html Use any search engine other than Google till they stop polluting USENET with porn and junk commercial SPAM If you have broadband, your ISP may have a NNTP news server included in your account: http://www.usenettools.net/ISP.htm |
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m... N_Cook wrote: To avoid condensation creeping, via capillary action, between copper conductor and the sleeving from an open end into otherwise sealed section. How to make or what sort of term or construction to look for in cable specs? The only wire that meets your requirement is intended for direct burial, and is called 'Flooded cable' Nasty stuff to work with. It is made for CATV, Networking and TELCO applications. Stock up on good industrial hand cleaner and a bale of paper towels if you decide to use it. -- http://improve-usenet.org/index.html Use any search engine other than Google till they stop polluting USENET with porn and junk commercial SPAM If you have broadband, your ISP may have a NNTP news server included in your account: http://www.usenettools.net/ISP.htm Sounds like fighting fire with fire. How to avoid liquid migrating along a core - flood the interior with liguid. Had a go chopping off a 2 inch length of hotmelt glue stick. Ground a crude chisel on one end of a length of 1mm rod and drilled/melted through the stick, pulled out while still warm. heated a copper wire cable core and pushed through. Covered with some heatshrink and a ceramic bead at the open end to keep roughly centralised. Heating the copper and sleeving with hot air gun and allowing the hotmelt to ooze out until contracted down, then cutting off bead section. Cut it open to check and seemed a good bond but will repeat and stand in some water with potassium permanganate on the upper end of the hotmelt section and leave for a few days -- Diverse Devices, Southampton, England electronic hints and repair briefs , schematics/manuals list on http://home.graffiti.net/diverse:graffiti.net/ |
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N_Cook wrote: But heatshrink leaves a capilliary path. If there was a way of making sure the conductor stayed reasonably axial then a few inch length of hotmelt glue around the conductor and then remelted/compressed in the process of contracting heatshrink sleeving around that, would probably be ok. After the first few inches bond to normal sleeving. That same effect can be achieved with what's called "flooded" or "dual wall" heatshrink tubing. It consists of two layers, the outer being the usual sort of heatshrink material and the inner being a near-equivalent to hot-melt glue. Put some of this around the conductor or joint, apply heat, the inner layer melts, the outer layer shrinks and forces the molten goop into a bond with the conductor, and (frequently) a bit of the excess goop expresses out of the end to let you know that it's on the job and working. Allow to cool, and you're good to go. Flooded heat-shrink is rather more expensive than standard single-wall but is well worth the cost if you're installing wires which will be exposed to moisture. -- Dave Platt AE6EO Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
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Sounds like fighting fire with fire. How to avoid liquid migrating along a core - flood the interior with liguid. It's not as if it's filled with sal****er. The "liquid" is a very nasty thick grease, I think it's silicone based. It has the look and feel of uncured clear silicone caulk, really gross stuff, I haven't found any solvent that washes it off, hence the comment about the roll of paper towels. |
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Flooded heat-shrink is rather more expensive than standard single-wall but is well worth the cost if you're installing wires which will be exposed to moisture. -- Dave Platt AE6EO Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! For small projects, I've occasionally sliced strips of hot melt glue stick and stuck it inside the heatshrink prior to shrinking it. It's not as convenient as the flooded heatshrink but it has the same effect. It's handy for automotive splices. |
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N_Cook wrote: Had a go chopping off a 2 inch length of hotmelt glue stick. Ground a crude chisel on one end of a length of 1mm rod and drilled/melted through the stick, pulled out while still warm. heated a copper wire cable core and pushed through. I'm not convinced hot melt is waterproof in the long term. Better with silicone. -- *Experience is something you don't get until just after you need it.* Dave Plowman London SW To e-mail, change noise into sound. |
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Sounds like fighting fire with fire. How to avoid liquid migrating along a
core - flood the interior with liguid. It's not as if it's filled with sal****er. The "liquid" is a very nasty thick grease, I think it's silicone based. It has the look and feel of uncured clear silicone caulk, really gross stuff, I haven't found any solvent that washes it off, hence the comment about the roll of paper towels. Belden seems to "flood" with a grease based on polyethylene or other polyolefins. Their trade name for the gel flooding construction is "CoreGuard". According to one report, Gunk engine-degreasing compound will remove it. -- Dave Platt AE6EO Friends of Jade Warrior home page: http://www.radagast.org/jade-warrior I do _not_ wish to receive unsolicited commercial email, and I will boycott any company which has the gall to send me such ads! |
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On Wed, 30 Apr 2008 08:15:35 +0100, "N_Cook" wrote:
:To avoid condensation creeping, via capillary action, between copper :conductor and the sleeving from an open end into otherwise sealed section. :How to make or what sort of term or construction to look for in cable specs? What type of cable are you talking about? If you can find a friendly telco cable jointer working in the street I'm sure he would be able to give you some tips. |
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