[TowerTalk] Rotor Control Cable

[john at kk9a.com]

It has been decades since I bought actual rotator cable. Typically the
motor requires a larger conductor than the sensing wires so I would
imagine that actual eight wire rotator cable would have two larger gauge
wires and six smaller ones.

John KK9A


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Subject:	[TowerTalk] Rotor Control Cable
From:	"Timothy A. Holmes" <taholmes160 at gmail.com>
Reply-to:	taholmes160 at gmail.com
Date:	Mon, 9 May 2016 17:25:32 -0400

Hi Guys - another one for the pile of questions

I was looking through the DXE catalog the other night and noticed that 8
conductor rotor cable is .89 cents a foot, and 4 conductor is .29 cents a
foot. ASSUMING (and yes, I know the rules about assuming) Since I haven't
looked it up online YET, that the wire gauge is the same in both types of
cable, is there any hurt, harm or danger in using 2 runs of the 4
conductor (total of about 60 dollars) vs 1 run of the 8 conductor (about
90 dollars)?

I should note that I am currently using 2 runs of cable for the rotor and
it works great -- I want to do this "right" but I also want to be sensible
with my budget

Thanks
TIM
W8TAH