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Old 09-01-2015, 01:53 PM
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A suggestion rather than conduits everywhere.

Conduits to plenty of places, but take them in to pits cast in to the floor. That way if you have (For instance and based on the design I am still brewing up) two desk locations in a warm room and a couple of piers, you can run comms conduits from where each work area will be in the warm room to a comms pit in the "Cold" area with the scope/s and then conduits from that pit to anywhere you reckon you might need one. Separate conduits and pits for power distribution, either DC or 240V.

If you run a conduit from everywhere you can think of for data or power, back to centralized pits rather than conduits from location to location you don't have to think of every possible cross connect up front, you just go from A to intermediate pit to B when you work out that the new gizmo in location A needs a connection to the thingy in location B, and then the whatsit in B needs a connection to that thing in location C so you go from B to pit to C.

You just need to make sure your conduit size is ample. The comms construction body in me would be tempted to put in P100 conduits anywhere multiple cables are likely, but a couple of P32 conduits is probably fairly safe, and easier to work with.

If you put in conduits make sure that you use sweeping, long radius bends. Nothing worse than putting in pit and pipe and then not being able to haul cable because the bends are too tight.

And lastly, make records and tag cables in the conduits. Nothing worse than not being able to remember where a pipe goes or what a particular cable in a pit is for.
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