Feeding Cable Through Flexible Conduit

Slip any additional wire s several inches into the loop fold over and wrap around the first wire.

Feeding cable through flexible conduit. 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. A fish tape is a thin sturdy wire inside of a plastic housing and acts like a snake to move through conduit. To start feed fish tape through the flexible conduit until it comes through the opposite end. The housing can usually be cranked to feed or reel in the tape.

Electrical conduit whether it be rigid metal emt rigid plastic pvc or flexible metal fmc is limited as regards the maximum number of electrical wires that can be run inside 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. Instead connect only one wire directly to the string create one or more loops in this wire 6 8 or more inches down the wire from the connection point. Step 3 pull the wire through the conduit.

Place your wire box so that it is free to leave the box and freely enter the conduit. There if the pull wire is connected to anything you will need to free it. A ring of the same size as a drawing wire is made in the feed cable. The amount of wire fill inside a conduit must be configured properly to prevent overheating of the wire which is why conduit fill tables are very important.

Use tape to fix the end like you pull wire. Pass the end of the wire or cable through the ring that you make in the wire. Using electrical conduit is the required method of protecting electrical wires in exposed situations where nm cable cannot be used. 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.

While using a wire fill table for electrical conduit it is best to size the conduit up to the next incremental size to be sure the conduit is not overfilled and it will make pulling in. Method 3 pull the pull wire through the conduit. This will make for a difficult pull through the conduit.