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Outside lighting and cable run around a lake

Giles D

Hi Folks, I am working on a fishery with a house on it that will be air B+B’d. The client wants outside lighting all around the property, front and rear. 3 of the circuits will be running around two lakes. There is a lot of trees, roots and obstacles, so the client does not want to dig trenches to run the cables underground. I am going to use either wise box’s or Shelly Pro 3’s to control all the circuits. The feeds to each control will be trenched, it is just the load runs that cannot be trenched. 
Could anyone help advise me on the running of cables around the lakes. I would like to run the cable in SWA, but as it is a commercial let property I am in a quandary over best practice and regs/ safety. Many thanks. Regards Giles 

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    If visibility on the ground is a problem, you might consider using fp500 red swa

  • 0 in reply to OlympusMons

    There are plenty of places with cables are routed across the ground by design - pop festivals, building sites, funfairs and fixed  sites like Alton Towers come to mind, but the installations are temporary or at least short-lived, and where they are not , they are supervised - and even then stuff regularly gets broken and needs  checking and replacing on the hoof . For crossing paths  there are drive-over cable guards that are rather like a traffic calming ramp.

    None of it is as robust as a proper underground installation and that will be reflected in the operational life and mean time between failures.

    Mike.

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  • 0 in reply to OlympusMons

    There are plenty of places with cables are routed across the ground by design - pop festivals, building sites, funfairs and fixed  sites like Alton Towers come to mind, but the installations are temporary or at least short-lived, and where they are not , they are supervised - and even then stuff regularly gets broken and needs  checking and replacing on the hoof . For crossing paths  there are drive-over cable guards that are rather like a traffic calming ramp.

    None of it is as robust as a proper underground installation and that will be reflected in the operational life and mean time between failures.

    Mike.

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