mm wrote:
On Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:26:30 GMT, aemeijers wrote:

I could
fake it with 2 runs of outdoor-rated landscape light zip wire, but that
would look crude.

Twist them around each other every six inches or so and they won't
spearate and you can tell people it's frappage or domage or whatever
they call artwork with ropes. Or you can say it's to prevent
induction of voltages due to lighting strikes. Like they run
twisted pairs for burglar alarm sensor wires (because they are long
runs I think) and they twist twin lead.

I used phone line for my burglar alarm sensor wires and after about 18
years, my control panel smoked to death. But I don't know why.

Or use teleophone wire like BQ says.

I looked online, but didn't find 4-conductor. When I
was a kid, every hardware store had a big reel of it, and you bought how
much you needed.

Thanks, all- if I get motivated this weekend, I'll try phone cable. I
happen to have a partial box of cat3 sitting in the basement that I
bought for a couple bucks at a garage sale a couple of years ago. I can
unreel 25 feet or so, and try a smoke test on the ground before I string
it. I guess if it acts unhappy, I can always do 2 runs, and double up
the conductors.

Did I mention I'm trying to do this on the cheap? (Just on general
principles- I can afford a new one, but doing it for next to nothing
would please my inner cheap SOB, and honor the memory of my late EE
grandfather, who was also a cheap SOB.)

Now all I need to scrounge is a short stick of mast and a couple of U
bolts....
--
aem sends....