How To Run Electrical Wire Through Conduit

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How to run electrical wire through conduit. Lubricating the wires. Lift the end of the conduit higher than the weight allowing gravity to pull the weight and wires through the conduit. It is also used in unfinished areas like basements crawlspaces and attics and for surface mounted installations outdoors. Method 3 pull the pull wire through the conduit.

Pulling wires can be difficult enough through straight runs of conduit but throwing a few bends and turns in the run increases friction making pulling much more difficult that s when you use a lubricant. For longer distances or runs that have two or more bends run a fish tape through the conduit and tape the wires to it photo 14 and detail photo. Either rigid or flexible conduit protects the wires and is used in exposed locations such as along the exterior surface of a wall. Rigid conduit with an outside diameter of 3 4 in and a fish tape long enough to reach through the buried pipe.

There if the pull wire is connected to anything you will need to free it. Move along the conduit lifting it allowing the weight to slide and continuing until all wire is through. This method works best for vertically run conduit. Wire pulling compound is a non conductive lubricant in either a gel or a slimy soapy form that makes both the conduit and wires slick by coating the wiring allowing.

Make a loop small enough that it will easily fit into the conduit then secure the loop by wrapping the free end to the wire strand with tape. Use outdoor silicone caulking around the conduit at the structure in order to hold the conduit into place and keep water from going inside your structure. Take your box of cable to the far end of the conduit. To run the wires inside rigid conduit you ll need a hacksaw a pipe bender capable of bending 1 2 in.

When running wire short distances with few bends such as between boxes 2 and 3 and 3 and 4 you can simply tape the two wire ends together and push them through the conduit photo 13.