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Get a cheap flexible Metal Pipe?
« on: November 18, 2020, 08:18:02 pm »
Hi
My local Shop sell such flexible Metal Pipe for 35€/m!  :wtf:
2,5cm - 5cm Diameter, Metal and Material for Mounting to a Metal or Plastic Box.
Simple I want put some Project stuff Outside in a Outdoor Box and need to connect 230V, Fiberglas Network,... to it who are not Outdoor Grade. The most easy way to protect them from Animals who want to make a bite Test is such full Metal Pipe who I nice and easy can stuck to Trees to get there where the Box is. With some nice Brown Spray Paint nobody will see them that easy.
So where to get them cheap? I am not willing to pay 35€ per Meter.
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Re: Get a cheap flexible Metal Pipe?
« Reply #2 on: November 19, 2020, 12:18:41 pm »
Yes such think but just 30m - 50m (sry I dont measure right now).
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Re: Get a cheap flexible Metal Pipe?
« Reply #4 on: November 19, 2020, 07:16:01 pm »
I just need to power some small device. And I need just such a RCD:
https://www.eaton.com/de/en-gb/catalog/electrical-circuit-protection/arc-fault-detection-device.html
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Re: Get a cheap flexible Metal Pipe?
« Reply #5 on: November 19, 2020, 08:48:35 pm »
flexible conduit AKA kopex sounds like the stuff your after,the genuine stuff isnt cheap,especially if your after  anything bigger than 25mm. what do you need,PVC covered metal, plain metal or just plain pvc?normally youd use standard conduit,bend it or put boxes in were  needed and only use the flexible for the final connection 
 

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Re: Get a cheap flexible Metal Pipe?
« Reply #6 on: November 19, 2020, 09:06:21 pm »
Hi
I will mount a Outdoor Box: https://www.digitus.info/de/produkte/netzwerk-und-serverschraenke/netzwerkschraenke-wandmontage/19-wandgehaeuse-outdoor-ip55/ on a Pole in the Garden.
In there will some Equitment who use a ordinary power supply from 230V to 12V, 5V,...
Inside will be a Pi and a 1000Mb Media Converter to Glas.
So in the Pipe, Hose,... will run attleast a 230V Cable and a normal indoor 50m Glas Cable.

Since I dont found a good Metal Hose I think I will maybe stick with a thick PVC one and hope no Animal want a snack. Well I live in a Urban environment and there could be some wild fox, squirel, batcher,...
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Re: Get a cheap flexible Metal Pipe?
« Reply #7 on: November 19, 2020, 10:40:06 pm »
You are thinking about how it might work. You also need to think about how it might fail - technically, legally, and from an insurance point of view.
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Re: Get a cheap flexible Metal Pipe?
« Reply #8 on: November 20, 2020, 11:07:27 am »
Well there is nothing wrong with that. Since its our House and I am a IT Engineer well I would say it could not that be that hard.
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Re: Get a cheap flexible Metal Pipe?
« Reply #9 on: November 20, 2020, 06:35:23 pm »
Well there is nothing wrong with that. Since its our House and I am a IT Engineer well I would say it could not that be that hard.

I'm an electronic engineer, and I know how different that is from being an electrical engineer qualified to work on high energy circuits.

I suggest that before you start work, you understand the local electrical codes, concentrating on the requirements that you find strange. They are there because people have been killed (or worse injured) and are aimed at preventing a repetition.
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Re: Get a cheap flexible Metal Pipe?
« Reply #10 on: November 20, 2020, 07:29:38 pm »
I just need to power some small device. And I need just such a RCD:
https://www.eaton.com/de/en-gb/catalog/electrical-circuit-protection/arc-fault-detection-device.html

This is not RCD, but AFDD. Completely different type of device.
 

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Re: Get a cheap flexible Metal Pipe?
« Reply #11 on: November 20, 2020, 07:43:12 pm »
I just need to power some small device. And I need just such a RCD:
https://www.eaton.com/de/en-gb/catalog/electrical-circuit-protection/arc-fault-detection-device.html

This is not RCD, but AFDD. Completely different type of device.

As he put it... :)

... and I am a IT Engineer well I would say it could not that be that hard.

There are lies, damned lies, statistics - and ADC/DAC specs.
Glider pilot's aphorism: "there is no substitute for span". Retort: "There is a substitute: skill+imagination. But you can buy span".
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Re: Get a cheap flexible Metal Pipe?
« Reply #12 on: November 20, 2020, 07:44:57 pm »
I just need to power some small device. And I need just such a RCD:
https://www.eaton.com/de/en-gb/catalog/electrical-circuit-protection/arc-fault-detection-device.html

This is not RCD, but AFDD. Completely different type of device.

As he put it... :)

... and I am a IT Engineer well I would say it could not that be that hard.

Well.. that thing is also an RCD.

Oh, and it'd be about €200 for no added protection.
 

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Re: Get a cheap flexible Metal Pipe?
« Reply #13 on: November 20, 2020, 08:18:33 pm »
Well I dont buy such thinks. We have some right one at Home.
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