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Field calculators and a troubleshooting library for low-voltage and ICT techs. The app runs both with no signal, and any result goes out as a Printout with your name on it.

Conduit Fill Live

Add cables until it fails.

Full calculator

Inputs

Conduit fill

24.5%of 40% allowed

PASS

Max cables this size4

Make the Printout

Opens this in the VoltIQ app with your numbers. Add your name and the job, then save it or send it to the crew.

The Verdict

Three kinds of wrong.

A green light can't tell a failed inspection from a callback next year. Every problem a VoltIQ calculator flags goes in one of three buckets, the way techs already sort it out loud.

  1. WON'T PASS

    Fails a code or standard limit. A tester or inspector will flag it.

    Channel & PoE

    As entered

    Construction
    Unscreened (UTP)
    Ambient
    35 °C
    Cord total
    10.0 m
    Installed PL
    89.0 m
    PoE
    Type 4 (802.3bt)

    89.0 m of 84.6 m allowed

    TOO LONG

    Longer than the permanent link this channel allows once temperature and cords are taken off.

    89.0 m installed / 84.6 m allowed at 35 °C

    Shorten to 84.6 m, shorten the cords, or get the ambient down.

  2. WON'T LAST

    Passes today, fails later. It brings you back on a callback.

    Bend & Tension

    As entered

    Cable type
    4-pair UTP / horizontal
    Outside dia.
    0.300 in
    Measured radius
    2.00 in
    Ties over-cinched
    yes

    2.00" min 1.20" (4× OD)

    WITHIN SPEC

    Over-cinched ties deform the jacket and crush pair geometry. This is the fault that tests fine on day one and drifts a year later.

    hand-tight only: a tie should slide along the bundle

  3. JUST UGLY

    Passes and will last. A pro would still do it differently: no margin, no room to grow.

    Conduit Fill

    As entered

    Raceway
    EMT 1"
    Cable
    Cat6 UTP
    Outside dia.
    0.235 in
    Quantity
    7

    35.1% of 40% allowed

    PASS

    Passes, but leaves no room for a future add.

    4.9% headroom remaining

A passing stamp can still carry a WON'T LAST or a JUST UGLY. A WON'T PASS never sits under one.

Tools

Four calculators. One way to read them.

Every result gives the reading, the limit it was measured against, a meter for how close you came, and every term behind the number. The calculators on this site run the app's own code.

Troubleshooting library

54 symptoms across 8 systems, each with likely causes and steps. Read them here, or in the app with no signal. The app adds 3 checklists.

  • Copper & Certification
  • Fiber Optic
  • PoE & Network
  • Video Surveillance
  • Access Control
  • Audiovisual
  • Fire Alarm
  • Wireless & DAS
Camera drops or whites out when IR engages “Perfect all day. Soon as it gets dark and the IR clicks on, the camera reboots, or the picture goes solid white and you can't see a thing.” 7 likely causes · 7 steps Most common: PoE budget or port allocation insufficient for the night load Browse all 54 guides

ASK

Type the question the way you'd say it on site. The answer runs under 60 words, action first, with the detail one tap away.

3 questions a day, free. Needs signal.

Inside the app

Built for one hand on a ladder.

Big tap targets, the result pinned at the top while you change a number, and Roof mode for direct sun.

  • VoltIQ Field Tools screen: Conduit Fill, Fiber Budget, Bend & Tension and Channel & PoE tiles, with the line "Works with no signal."
    Field tools. Works with no signal.
  • VoltIQ Conduit Fill screen showing 98.1% of 40% allowed, stamped OVER, with 12 Cat6A UTP cables in 1 inch EMT and the PRINTOUT button.
    The result stays pinned while you change a number.
  • VoltIQ Guides screen with Fix a fault and Checklists tabs, a search box, and eight system tiles from Copper & Certification to Wireless & DAS.
    Guides by system: copper to wireless.
  • VoltIQ guide "Camera drops or whites out when IR engages", with the tech's quote and likely causes ordered from most common to less common.
    Likely causes, most common first.

No signal needed

Works in a dead riser.

The calculators, the Verdict, the Printout and the library all run on the phone. ASK is the one part that needs bars.

What works

  • Calculators and the Verdict Worked out on the phone Works
  • Printout Made and saved on the phone Works
  • Troubleshooting library Stored on the phone Works
  • ASK Answered over signal Works Needs signal

No signal. Everything but ASK still works.

The airplane-mode test

  1. Open the web app once with signal.
  2. Wait for “Works with no signal.” on the Tools screen.
  3. Turn on airplane mode and reload. It still opens. Run a calculator, open a guide, make a Printout.

Printout

Your name on the answer.

Any result becomes a sheet for the crew thread: the job, the reading, the stamp, the fix, the math behind it, and your name across the bottom. Save it to the phone or send it from there.

Crew thread

R. Delgado

Printout for Level 3 TR / Run 214: Conduit fill 98.1% of 40% allowed, stamped OVER. Go to 2" EMT and it lands under 40%. Signed R. DELGADO, INST2.

Don't pull this run yet. Fix is on the sheet.

2:37 PM

Copy. Holding the pull.

Example thread. The names and the job are made up. The sheet is real output from the Conduit Fill calculator.
Size
1080 × 1350, 4:5, so it lands uncropped in a group chat.
Name
Typed once and kept on the phone. Switch it off and the sheet goes out unsigned.
Letters
From a fixed list: RCDD, RTPM, OSP, INST1, INST2, TECH, NICET I, NICET II, NICET III, NICET IV.
Job line
Optional. It prints large across the top, like LEVEL 3 TR / RUN 214.
Fine print
Every sheet says “For field coordination. Not a stamped engineering document.”

More sheets

  • Printout for MDF to IDF-3 / 12F OM3: Fiber loss budget 1.85 dB of 2.60 dB budget, stamped PASS. Signed M. REYES, RCDD.
    Fiber Budget PASS
  • Printout for Cam 14 / North lot: Channel length 80.0 m of 84.6 m allowed, stamped PASS, DERATED. Signed K. OKAFOR, TECH.
    Channel & PoE PASS, DERATED
  • Printout for TR 2 / Ladder rack drop: Bend radius 2.00" min 1.20" (4× OD), stamped WITHIN SPEC. Signed J. PARK, NICET II.
    Bend & Tension WITHIN SPEC

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