well we're back snake charming again and today's magic is in the form of
the Atkore Flexicon divisible slit conduit time to get the point i think then is it
i think you've lost your charm there gary i think i lost my charm a long time ago now we have
featured flexicon in a previous video check that out if you haven't seen it but today's product
is a little different gary comes in two halves i think i'll be coming on in the second half is the
super sub then will i no i think he'll be staying on the sub bench because this is the star of the
show it is this flexicon slit conduit and yeah i think i guess the name gives it away but obviously
look at these cables have threaded through here yes but actually i didn't thread them through
i just dropped them in to the slot here and you make up the conduit by just clicking it together
right okay so this is the divisible bit okay yeah that makes sense wow that was simple there you go
now and that doesn't stop there right what's next fitting gland so imagine that already had to say
a pre-terminated end on there and i needed to slot them through so the gland again just
clicks into place and what about the lock ring well here it is that's in two arms as well
yeah that just clicks in and down onto our gland and then our two part lock ring clicks into place
job done that is absolutely brilliant it is that's a great system now you know you're going to think
actually i've seen split conduit before okay there's lots of products on the market but here's
the difference so this one here you know this is pretty robust you know i can't squash that it's
I'd say it has the feel of that normal flexion conduit we've finished in the other video but
this one here being the split type so that's the traditional type so you mentioned you've put it
together it sort of still twists and it can come up and you know it depends on how you twist it
you can hear it moving yep and i always find the split conduit quite difficult to get the actual
cables into it i'm sure it's probably just me and people will be telling me how a better technique
of doing it but i find it quite challenging in order to get the conductors into this
and obviously if you're going to crush it okay that's a split type where this is the slit
yeah it's a divisible sling again if we have a closer look at it you'll see these two halves
okay and they pull it off so yeah here's our inner half okay that's got a slightly smaller opening
yeah it's got a sort of raised edge here yeah so you'll see when we push it back together it
forms a nice complete circle yeah and obviously i can't squash that okay is it a specialist gland
for this one outside obviously we've got the split gland right but interesting we'll use the
standard glands from the uh from the flexicon range that were featured in the previous video
right okay yeah yeah i can just push that on there so you've got the two options you can use
this especially split one or just a standard gland what about the clips themselves to hold
it on the way and the clips again are the ones we featured again good thing about the flexicon ones
is you push it in it holds it in place yeah that's not moving anywhere and you don't necessarily even
have to fit the uh retaining clip there right you like this bit yeah i do like this but yeah yeah
yeah so the items within the range are compatible with this stuff which is the divisible i'm going
to go slit are we or split that slit slit okay did a visible slit yeah the two halves divisible
divides by two so let's think of some practical applications for it then i know i've when i've
been on holiday and that i see a lot of flexible conduits around the continent and often they look
a little worn maybe the sunlight's got to them etc isn't it that's a good point now something
we didn't discuss in our last video we've still got our set behind us where we looked at using the
flexion in an EV charging installation obviously we our mock-up is set in an underground car park
obviously you're gonna have to worry if sunlight gets in there but that is a mistake people make
a lot of when it comes to flexible conduit oh i'll just go for that cheapest option on the shelf down
at the wholesalers and you end up with pvc conduit and obviously as we know pvc doesn't necessarily
perform well outdoors yeah uv degradation yeah and obviously in a yeah short relatively short
period of time obviously starts to crack or it'll fall off and and that's probably one of
the easiest applications for this is possible we need to go and revisit an existing installation
okay so before we get to revisiting and existing installation then it's it's assets shall we see it
perhaps uh used by behind us shall we see here what i did there yes that's a look at what you did
it's a lot of time you have to install now pre-manufactured leads and we've got some
rj45s then a usb and what you're doing there gary so i've took the divisible slit conduit
and i've got the well effectively the slightly smaller inner version of it going around now
and then this is that one we'd seen on the bench that's got the wider gap in it just to wrap around
it just goes over the top marries the two together it's ever so simple just clicks in place yeah i
mean that's a great application because there's no way you'd be able to thread those cables through
a flexible conduit and into an enclosure and get it through the gland okay now we've got the split
gland itself and again just fully insert it up to the the end point there and just click it
together that's it just a nice firm press together click it push it back into the box then and you're
ready to put the lock ring on and again this is wean well thought out as well it's you just
bring in your lock ring open it up clip it around the cables don't try and put it around the
actual conduit itself now clip it together so it is now effectively just the lock ring and just
obviously tighten that one into position and you can see there we've got our three cables then
protected by our flexible conduit but of course somebody would be saying well how would i get
it off again just repeat the process in reverse so i take off my lock nut and i just open it out
so i just pull it apart oh great yeah so if that was a if that was a sort of temporary installation
you need to disassemble it again you could uh yeah you could uh do that clips um we've got the
back plate there which obviously can screw to the surface there's a little ridge in the front clip
but we don't necessarily need the front by the clip do we no the interesting thing about flexicon
products is that clips will clip more than 180 degrees around the conduit so it'll hold it in
place even without having top so you could have instances where you don't even need that top clip
to be in place okay so there's something quite satisfying about putting that clip into position
and clicking it down got one more to go just click it into position and there it is finished
so think of another application you know you get a plug lead maybe it's an application
under a bench a work area where you've got lots of cables you want to tidy those up
this would come in brilliantly then wouldn't it yeah i mean one of the suggestions that flex can
make is obviously using this instead of say cable ties right okay i mean i've mocked this
up here bringing some data cables now remember in a previous video gary we got into trouble
for tying data cables with plastic cable ties right and obviously the suggestion is to use
velcro cable ties but they're not necessarily durable in terms of that environment where
possibly things are getting moved around a lot so this is a game that would be a really good
solution under there when it with a few clips etc yeah we've also uh gone and used it in an
application in the real world again so we we found an installation which we'll show you in a minute
well we've shown you it in the respect of only one cable it really comes into its own where there's
multiple cables becoming between two locations and the outer protection has been damaged can you
think of an example of that yeah so it happens a lot it's in solar farms yeah things like that you
know where again that uv problems come in cabled it's degraded and you need to add protection now
just remember this is mechanical protection so it's ip40 rated so it's not going to give you any
ingress protection against water this is for you know protecting against mechanical damage yeah
and if you think of that solar farm maybe that you were talking about there might be multiple
cables going in one location are you going to want to go to the effort of disconnecting them all and
replacing the containment when actually you could just wrap it around the areas that need protecting
yeah let's have a look at my cabled installation which only had one cable so let's take a look at
this situation it's not up to scratch the ip right in the top of this enclosure is an ip4x
obviously we've got a cable clip to the surface longer joist and then going into the side of
fluorescent light fitting and we can solve that problem gordon okay yeah i mean this is this is
quite a common scenario that you see don't you people just yeah leave the knockout and don't
put in something to fill that hole perhaps they did it in a time when that wasn't important yeah
and we increased the level of protection as well by putting this divisible slit conduit in so i'm
not going to disconnect any conductors right so we have them all connected now in this instance you
could argue this would be a simple disconnection but think about panels think about connections
into them with multiple cables in it it works exactly the same process okay so you're going to
put the the twin and earth cable into the into the smaller part of the slit conduit system yeah i am
and again there's something quite satisfying about clipping the two together so just the slightly
larger one goes on the top yeah and just just feed it down with your hands and then just do same on
both ends so um we're just going to put the gland in as well so just click it down into position
yeah i'm assuming you isolated the system first yeah 100 yeah so fully isolated okay so we're not
trying to do this to prevent isolation but we're certainly doing it to prevent removing connections
as i said in that scenario imagine there's lots and lots of different connections all right so
there's our split gland again yeah you can see the light switch is still fully intact seen it many
times now just clip it together again as always saying something quite satisfying about doing that
then we've got our lock ring yep so obviously we're just going to make sure we go around all
the cables so that's just be careful yeah it can be easily unclicked but
it's just uh yeah and we go and just tighten that one off put these in you're getting ready
to do your favorite part the clips is it look at the other end no i can do the other end so we're
going to dress it round and get it to the required length at the other end and then i'll clip it back
into position afterwards so there i am just finishing it off yeah oh you like that i do
and again it goes without saying how much i enjoy doing this bit so clip it together
i'm going to push it into the flesh and fit in again no connections have been removed
okay and then just again introduce the lock now i've already showed it once
so yeah that's fine just push that back into place and obviously tighten that one up
now now your favorite part yeah the clips yeah so the interesting thing about these clips is it's
the same regardless of using the regular flexi con conduit or this this slit system it's the
same clip so you don't need to carry different types of different families of conduit and they
really do hold firmly as well it's always going to look a little bit because it is flexible that i'm
putting on to the actual surface itself so when i pan back and have a look at it obviously you know
it is straight obviously it's just that flexible look at it but that looks a lot better than what
we had before and you've got that mechanical protection so what's the ambient temperature that
this conduit system will work within well go all the way from -40C Gary all the way up to a massive
120 degrees C should you need to okay we've seen black and we've seen black Gordon there's plenty
more colors here and i'm excited about those let's have a closer look at all these colors
obviously the flexicon tell me the popular coz obviously black it's a bit henry ford
but obviously white is popular where aesthetics and gray where you want to be somewhere in between
but they can in fact make them in almost any color obviously not exactly off the shelf
because that just multiplies up the part number combinations but if you're looking again we've
got some orange you may remember from your youth we use the paint conduits orange for electricity
yeah it's the yeah the standard color for it is orange that is right now what sizes do they come
in gordon now often it's the size of the diameter both internal and external okay so external
nominal diameter goes from 11 to 54 millimeters so you get a lot of cables in a 54 millimeter conduit
and that obviously that it comes from an inner diameter of seven to 45 millimeters okay so we've
got a multi-color i like this because we could in effect pick two colors here we could have black
and white your favorite colors for newcastle if we took those two conduits and put them together
we've got a blue and a red there yeah it could be popular options depending on where you are yeah
if you wanted to make a conduit in some places is a is a design accessory we could set a trend here
with the colored conduits now i have actually managed to start figuring out the part numbers
from their flexor card and you know i love a part number you do and especially when the part number
gives a clue as to what the product is so this is the f pads range okay yeah what does that mean yes
go on to guess on there f flexible no flexicon gary so it's the name of the product so that's why
he doesn't do the part numbers and i do the part numbers so the f for flexicon the pa indicates a
um nylon material okay that's what that's what i would have gone for you never three though yeah
i don't know also available in polypropylene oh that was going to be a second guess
no yeah is divisible oh i should have got that one already so there you go so i'm starting to
figure it out and there's some other things in there it has an r it's rail industry approvals
with enhanced five performance all right things like that so yeah huge range lots of different
applications uv stable fire gary right okay fire what do you mean fire explains if what happens
if this conduit catches fire self-extinguishing okay so it's not gonna it's not gonna help the
fire spread no it's once the source of ignition has possibly been removed from the situation
right okay so let's think of a scenario then i've been i've been called to decide to do emergency
repair okay i'll jump into the back of the van is there anything to help me in that situation is
the emergency response kit again so let's take a look at the divisible slit conduit retro pack yeah
so this is already pre-packaged five meters of conduit with uh yeah four glands four clips ready
for that uh emergency situation where you need to add some protection to it so you don't need to
worry about all the different partners and all the different components let's pull it back in for me
i really enjoyed using this okay it's almost too easy what a simple idea no disconnection of the
conductors we've got some really difficult ends here that wouldn't be passed through the conduit
itself wow just solves the problem and it's very tactile product as well gordon yeah well perhaps
you can do a another bit of snake charming yeah i think my snake charming as you said days are over
however as always we're interested in everyone else's comments are you currently using flexible
conduit for a certain application share that comment below have you used this range from accor
whether it be the range that we looked at in a the previous video that we recommend you check out or
this divisible slit version okay are you thinking about using the future is it now a new discovery
to you and your mind's going wild with where you can use it in the future we'd be interested in
all of those comments leave them below and we'll try and get back to as many as we can