Welcome to the staging ground for new communities! Each proposal has a description in the "Descriptions" category and a body of questions and answers in "Incubator Q&A". You can ask questions (and get answers, we hope!) right away, and start new proposals.
What is this electrical/ethernet conduit on the wall and how do I repair it? Question
My house has some conduits put in by previous residents. The conduits are plastic enclosures running along walls, which contain electrical outlets as well as ethernet plugs (actually it also has RH45 for landlines, but I don't care about those). Presumably, they wanted to have ethernet throughout the house, but didn't want to fish the cable through walls, so they opted to bolting a conduit to the wall instead.
The conduit appears to have a front cover, a top cover, and a bottom cover. These covers are all in sections of about 3 feet, where there is a longer stretch, two sections are put in tandem. It is not clear what holds them in place or how to remove them.
The outlet blocks have electrical sockets (which work) and ethernet jacks (which don't 😢). The electrical outlet cover has two screws, which I haven't tried to remove. I expect that it's a good idea to turn off the breaker for the room before doing so.
Does anyone know what these conduits are called, and how to open them so I can check the ethernet cable inside? I've tried sticking a metal tool in between the top and front covers, which exposed a little "groove" that was holding them together, but neither cover wanted to come off after that.
1 answer
That looks like it is a relative of the Legrand Wiremold 2300D Surface Nonmetallic Raceway System.
Because you have 120 volt A/C power and low voltage communication wires in the same raceway, it should be a dual channel raceway.
The one in your picture doesn't exactly match, I suspect it is a much older model. However, I would expect it to work much the same way. The raceway should come apart into two pieces. You should be able to pry the cover off to reveal two channels. It looks like the top channel should be your electrical and the bottom channel should be for data.
Once the cover is removed, you would be able to see exactly where the wires go an where they connect. For safety, you should turn the breaker off for that circuit before opening the raceway.
0 comment threads
2 comment threads