On 18 Jun 2007 21:40:29 GMT, Allodoxaphobia wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 07:25:26 -0500, Jeff Dieterle wrote:
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

[ Dunno what happened to the text of my original followup, so ... ]

What I do is wait for one of the Big Box Stores to have a loss leader
sale on 100' extension cords. They'll usually be 16 ga. -- sometimes
you'll see 14 ga. My rotator requires 5-conductor -- so I buy two
100-footers and parallel the two green wires -- which are usually a
smaller guage than the other two.

WFM
HTH
73
Jonesy
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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
I use all Ham-3 and Ham-4 type rotators which need 8 conductors. Only
two of those (which run the motor) need to be larger size. For long runs to
the tower I use Romex #14 for the motor wires and CAT5 for the other 6.
Cheaper than buying "heavy-duty" rotator cable.

BTW on VHF/UHF you probably want some serious hardline for the RF link if
you are looking at a 500' cable run.

Tor
N4OGW

Man you gotta help me here....

BTW on VHF/UHF you probably want some serious hardline for the RF link if
you are looking at a 500' cable run.

I'm just an old retired grunt electrician
Thanks
Jeff

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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
I use all Ham-3 and Ham-4 type rotators which need 8 conductors. Only
two of those (which run the motor) need to be larger size. For long runs
to
the tower I use Romex #14 for the motor wires and CAT5 for the other 6.
Cheaper than buying "heavy-duty" rotator cable.

BTW on VHF/UHF you probably want some serious hardline for the RF link if
you are looking at a 500' cable run.

Tor
N4OGW