Entrenched: Power to the Tower
August 31-September 1: Jack and I began the job of laying in PVC pipe from the house out to the tower base for the electrical power to the raising motor and a separate 2 inch pipe for the three coax runs and control for the rotor.
Jack grooms the electrical trench for the raising and lowering motor power line from the house. |
Finally, the trenches are ready for pipe! |
10 foot sections of 1 inch diameter PVC are expoxied together and laid carefully into the 24 inch trench.
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120 feet of nylon mesh rope is inserted in the PVC line with a "steel snake" so wiring can be pulled through clear to the basement electrical panel. |
the coax PVC comes up from the trench, and the coax to be pulled with the nylon rope inserted through the piping. |
then secured to the coax standoff pole... |
