"Jeff Dieterle" wrote in message
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I'm installing a 60ft tower about 400ft from my house for uhf/vhf. I'm
planning to use a Channel Master rotor which I haven't purchased yet. I've
buried 1"pvc conduit to tower and planning the wire pull for the antenna &
satellite coax plus the rotor cable. From my research 3c/22ga. wire will
control all C M rotors. Since I don't know the power requirements yet of
the un-purchased rotor I can't calculate the voltage drop on appx. 500ft
of 22 ga wire to see if it will be sufficient. Can somebody either reply
with the typical C M rotor current/voltage/watts or first hand knowledge
of the correct wire gauge for a 500ft run. Thanks Jeff


Hi, Jeff -

I could find only one rotator on the Channel Master Web site. The manual for
it is
http://www.pctinternational.com/chan...al_9521_37.pdf
and page 1 tells required wire size vs length. Looks like you need 18ga.

Cheers,
John KD5YI

Hi John KD5YI,
Thanks for the link. That's the info I needed.
Jeff

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"Jeff Dieterle" wrote in message
...
I'm installing a 60ft tower about 400ft from my house for uhf/vhf. I'm
planning to use a Channel Master rotor which I haven't purchased yet.
I've buried 1"pvc conduit to tower and planning the wire pull for the
antenna & satellite coax plus the rotor cable. From my research 3c/22ga.
wire will control all C M rotors. Since I don't know the power
requirements yet of the un-purchased rotor I can't calculate the voltage
drop on appx. 500ft of 22 ga wire to see if it will be sufficient. Can
somebody either reply with the typical C M rotor current/voltage/watts or
first hand knowledge of the correct wire gauge for a 500ft run. Thanks
Jeff


Hi, Jeff -

I could find only one rotator on the Channel Master Web site. The manual
for it is
http://www.pctinternational.com/chan...al_9521_37.pdf
and page 1 tells required wire size vs length. Looks like you need 18ga.

Cheers,
John KD5YI