SWA power supply and SWA cat6 to shed

[J.C.E]

Evening

just looked at a job where customer wants a swa supply down to shed

but also wants swa cat6 down there to (going to be his home office)

The run is 30m and will be cleated- and only burried for 1m to cross a gate way

The run is to and from same place...

Cleating them side by side ok as there swa or would I need to space them?

cheers guys

 

[Richard Burns]

You would generally not want to have the power cables and data cable running parallel to each other for long distances as this will increase the risk of interference on the data from the power cables.

The steel wire will provide a certain sort of shielding but not very effectively, but if the data cable is itself shielded then this may alleviate the potential problems. I think the general recommendation would be to have a shielding barrier between the two types of cable.
Though if it is just an internet connection then the chance of problems are probably fairly low.

 

[J.C.E]

yes its just for internet down there and it will be cat6 so this is shielding right?

 

[Richard Burns]

CAT6 as a cable has a different twisting or something like that to make it CAT6 rather than CAT5e.
Either of these cables can also have a foil shielding for the cores. I.e. the difference between UTP (unshielded) and FTP (foiled) cable.
It depends on what your cable spec states, it may be that all SWA has shielding but I am afraid I do not know if this is the case.

 

[amlu]

cat5 will do the job too, unless they are planning to run a datacenter in the shed.
keep them some distance apart when fixed to the walls, couple of meters running in the trench together should not make any problems.
i used this kind of cable on a job couple of years ago
CAT5E External Duct Grade Cable PE Sheath - 305m Box - https://www.tlc-direct.co.uk/Products/CAEXCAT5E.html
around 40 meters run together with SWA for power, its all still there never had any complains.

 

[rolyberkin]

Done one of these recently and just run them side by side, I did ask a mate who was on a BT and he just shrugged his shoulders, no real issues, I ordered some cat 5e from ebay and got sent Cat6, run about 30+ meters and again no issues.