Any of y'all have experience pulling fiber through conduit? It's going in the ground. Trying not to break the bank -- it looks like duplex LC connectors (13mm wide?) will almost fit in a 3/4" pvc conduit -- should I use rigid schedule 40 pvc? or something like liquid tight flexible pvc?
(Direct burial fiber is 6-8x the price of outdoor-rated fiber which makes conduit a much cheaper option)

Electrical code requires PVC to be Schedule 40 or 80, but fiber isn't electrical. Maybe sdr-21 pipe would work well enough for this conduit (more flexible, half the cost of schedule 40)

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@whack I imagine it would follow whatever code is in place for low power wires (ie telephone wires and the like). I believe they are supposed to be in separate conduits from high power wires but beyond that I don't recall the rules (depth to bury, type of conduit to use).

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