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Post by Smiley on Oct 21, 2016 21:35:11 GMT -8
I am installing my panel approx. 20 ft away on a post. Is it recommended to place the MC4 cable in low voltage PVC pipe
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Post by jsb2000 on Oct 22, 2016 9:10:41 GMT -8
I am installing my panel approx. 20 ft away on a post. Is it recommended to place the MC4 cable in low voltage PVC pipe
Unless you are burying it, I don't think it's necessary. I've had my MC4 cables exposed to the elements (rain, snow, ice, blistering heat) for several years now with absolutely no degradation. But running them inside PVC pipe shouldn't hurt them either. |
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Post by spiderbob on Oct 25, 2016 21:19:58 GMT -8
I was going to pass on this, but perhaps it needs a bit of explanation. To play it safe, if you are burying your cable (especially in those areas where you get a ground freeze) you want to be below the freeze line. Advantages to this by using PVC (electrical) would be to keep the ground from freezing around the cable itself as this would make it more prone to breakage without the PVC, and, you get an additional insulation by having air around the cable itself, as I already mentioned being right in the permafrost can actually brake your cable. So the recommendations you heard was probably based on this assumption. Just use common sense you aren't in the freeze zone, don't worry about it as jsb mentioned. Besides, it's just safer.
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