Hilton: Can you get this cable with mixed wire gauges, i.e. 3 #10 (white and two colors) and 1 #8(green or bare)?
How does this material look on surface runs? Can you get it to run nice and straight? Thanks in advance. William -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Hilton Dier III Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 4:28 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [RE-wrenches] question about pole mount interconnection We just did a 4 pole installation using DPW top-of-pole mounts. We used Teck-90 armored watertight cable between the poles and from the poles to the house. The Teck-90 spiral wound metal flex conduit with an everything-resistant black sheath on it pre-stuffed with just about any combo of wires you might want. We cast 2" PVC sweeps into the 36" dia. sonotubes so the cable could enter underground and come up next to the pole. We put PVC end caps on the tops of the sweeps with cable holes in them, just for neatness. Teck-90 is a revelation. We laid out and buried a double run of 100 feet of the stuff in the time it took the excavator to go along the trench. He never got out of the cab. We get it on a 500' spool and mount the spool in the back of a pickup. Then we just run off however much we need, cut it to length, and throw dirt on it. We got it from Graybar for slightly less than the price per foot of the equivalent wire and PVC conduit. I had been meaning to write a post on here about it. We also just did PV on a barn roof and did the spool-it-off-and-clip-it-up routine. Made the run from the roof to the inverter on the north side first floor in about 40 minutes. No conduit bending. The end connectors are kind of pricey, but the time saved is huge. Hilton -- Hilton Dier III Renewable Energy Design Partner, Solar Gain LLC 453 East Hill Rd. Middlesex, VT 05602 _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: [email protected] Change email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4142 / Virus Database: 3604/6704 - Release Date: 09/27/13 ----- No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2014.0.4142 / Virus Database: 3604/6722 - Release Date: 10/04/13 _______________________________________________ List sponsored by Home Power magazine List Address: [email protected] Change email address & settings: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/options.cgi/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List-Archive: http://lists.re-wrenches.org/pipermail/re-wrenches-re-wrenches.org List rules & etiquette: www.re-wrenches.org/etiquette.htm Check out participant bios: www.members.re-wrenches.org
