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Re: [TowerTalk] Coax as powerline

To: Doug Renwick <ve5ra@sasktel.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Coax as powerline
From: Dino Darling <dino@k6rix.com>
Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2008 08:06:34 -0700
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Can you?  Yes.  Should you;  I'll let you be the judge of that based 
on your previous input.

I didn't know water could ingress into coax easier than standard 
wire.  One would think that coax, which is designed to be in the 
weather, would limit water intrusion a bit easier than your standard 
THHN copper wire.

I'd HI-POT the coax to at least 600V from the center conductor to the 
shield first.  I bet it will work just fine.

At 08:53 AM 4/14/2008, Doug Renwick wrote:

>Has anyone successfully used ca RG-8 or RG-11 center conductor only to
>carry 120 or 240 volts in place of an underground power cable?  I have
>some surplus coax that I was thinking of using in place of current
>expensive copper cable.
>
>Doug
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