[TowerTalk] Feedthroughs for rotator cable?

[jimlux]

On 11/13/20 1:11 PM, Jim Brown wrote:
> On 11/13/2020 12:24 PM, Ross Tucker wrote:
>> Next question: how do you feed rotator cables through a wall?
> 
> I mounted a weatherproof box on the outside of the wall behind the 
> operating desk, brought cable in from the bottom, barrier strips inside 
> the box for SteppIR and rotator control cables, hole drilled in the wall 
> just large enough for 1-in PVC conduit, then cables through the conduit 
> to the operating desk.
> 
> The barrier strips have proven quite useful when troubleshooting issues 
> with rodent damage to control cables.

These days, I'd use those nifty green connection blocks with the screw 
clamps. Stick the stripped wire in, tighten the screw, done. No need for 
ring or spade lugs, and you can easily probe from the top.

You can get ones which are actually a multiconductor plug into a 
housing, which also has either another identical plug on the other side, 
or screw terminals. That makes it easy to do a "mass disconnect".

They also make "bus connect" ones (although not as many configurations) 
if you have a dozen wires that all need to go to the same circuit.  I've 
not used them, I just do a daisy chain on the other side of the block.

I'm never using one of those black barrier strips again, where you lose 
the screws, or they're half phillips and half slotted, because you 
bought them at different times.

If you want to be fancy, get the ones that mount on a DIN rail.