Trench fiber, cat6 etc

[Firefighter]

So I'm running data to the chicken coop where I'll have a poe switch for cameras around the coop one tree house.

I didn't want to spend $250 on a trencher so I borrowed a friend's line hand trencher for cables. Now I'm torn between laying fiber, cat6, or even conduit. I'm running 1/2pex for water as well.

Photos attached, video below.

Video.

 

[mat200]

So I'm running data to the chicken coop where I'll have a poe switch for cameras around the coop one tree house.

I didn't want to spend $250 on a trencher so I borrowed a friend's line hand trencher for cables. Now I'm torn between laying fiber, cat6, or even conduit. I'm running 1/2pex for water as well.

Photos attached, video below.

Video.

I really like the idea of conduit runs, the physical protect is useful vs Uncle Joe's hand shovel helping Mom plant flowers someday in the future ..

 

[Firefighter]

I stopped over thinking it and dropped a dual cat5e direct burial cables from home depot. Above that I dropped in a 1/2 pex line for water. It's 9-12 inches deep on average where I checked.

Ideal world it would be 1 inch conduit with 2 fiber lines. But that's totally unnecessary.

Will share a video.

Thanks!

 

[looney2ns]

If you have lightning storms in your area, the fibre would have been the better option.

Hopefully, you did use shielded cat5e and will properly ground the shield at the house end.

 

[Ri22o]

For future reference, you can use Pex as conduit.

 

[Firefighter]

Thanks guys. Just needed to get something in the ground and working. I'll maybe trench a fiber in conduit this summer. Just have an issue with a neighbor I need to get covered. ( Concerned he'll kill the chickens )

 

[wpiman]

Thanks guys. Just needed to get something in the ground and working. I'll maybe trench a fiber in conduit this summer. Just have an issue with a neighbor I need to get covered. ( Concerned he'll kill the chickens )

Do you have roosters?

I have a had conduit like that. I put it on the edge outside the grass where no one will probably ever dig.

 

[kolt_]

Ubiquiti's wireless point to point bridges would also work and maybe even be the best solution for this case if it's cameras you are just interested in connecting. But wired is better than wireless obviously and since you already trenched it, no point in considering that. Fiber is better for reasons already mentioned and has been relatively inexpensive, I just recently bought pre-terminated cable from

https://www.lanshack.com/

and it worked out very well. Just need at least media converters (or switches with sfp ports) & the correct sfp modules