Jon's option #2 seems like the best at the moment, given the cirumstances. Why over-engineer this thing? Seriously, if you've got that much free time on your hands, you may need a better job. *chuckle*
Long term, of course, they will need to dig up the road to fix the wire, but in the meantime, don't spend days on this. If need be, make a new post. Materials will include a 5 gallon bucket, a sack of Quickrete, a 4x4 post, a weatherproof fiberglass box (such as <a href=" http://www.hometech.com/techwire/boxes.html#RJ1008HP";>this</a>), a couple of screws, and a garage door opener. If you're looking for something a bit more permanent, substitute a post hole digger for the 5 gallon bucket. That's my opinion, anyway. Regards, Ben Pitzer On 15 Feb 2006 23:48:52 -0500, Jon Carnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 2006-02-15 at 21:31, Pat Regan wrote: > > Greg Brown wrote: > > > Sadly the problem seems to lie somewhere in the wire path under the > existing > > > roadway. And they say digging up the road in any way, shape, or form > is not > > > possible. > > > > > > > I may be naive, but wouldn't the wire have to be running through some > > kind of conduit? If it isn't, I would imagine that would have helped it > > to fail :p. > > > > If it is, you could just tie the new wire to the old and pull it > through. > > > > Pat > > If it's an old park road then most likely whatever conduit there was has > either cracked or rusted to dust and you'll never get the wire to move. > That's probably why the circuit got cut as well. > > Still there are two very obvious non-linux solutions here: > 1) Rent a trencher with a boring rod (drill down, then *under* the road) > and this time put a decent conduit under the road. > > http://www.diynetwork.com/diy/sw_sod/article/0,2029,DIY_14369_2278540,00.html > > 2) Buy a "garage" door opener and glue it to the old button stand. Yes > you'll have to bring out spare batteries every now and then, but it's a > cheap solution that gets you up and running fast. > > Other than that, I've used some old A/D cards that cost around $20 to > turn really old PC's into rather elegant switches and sensors. That > would easily turn on/off a relay to open/close the gates remotely. > > Good Luck! > > > -- > TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug > TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ > TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/ > -- TriLUG mailing list : http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug TriLUG Organizational FAQ : http://trilug.org/faq/ TriLUG Member Services FAQ : http://members.trilug.org/services_faq/
