[RE-wrenches] question about pole mount interconnection

[William Miller]

Hilton:

Can you get this cable with mixed wire gauges, i.e. 3 #10 (white and two
colors) and 1 #8(green or bare)?

How does this material look on surface runs?  Can you get it to run nice and
straight?

Thanks in advance.

William
 
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Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2013 4:28 PM
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Subject: [RE-wrenches] question about pole mount interconnection

We just did a 4 pole installation using DPW top-of-pole mounts. We used
Teck-90 armored watertight cable between the poles and from the poles to the
house. The Teck-90 spiral wound metal flex conduit with an
everything-resistant black sheath on it pre-stuffed with just about any
combo of wires you might want. We cast 2" PVC sweeps into the 36" dia. 
sonotubes so the cable could enter underground and come up next to the pole.
We put PVC end caps on the tops of the sweeps with cable holes in them, just
for neatness.

Teck-90 is a revelation. We laid out and buried a double run of 100 feet of
the stuff in the time it took the excavator to go along the trench. 
He never got out of the cab. We get it on a 500' spool and mount the spool
in the back of a pickup. Then we just run off however much we need, cut it
to length, and throw dirt on it.

We got it from Graybar for slightly less than the price per foot of the
equivalent wire and PVC conduit. I had been meaning to write a post on here
about it.

We also just did PV on a barn roof and did the spool-it-off-and-clip-it-up
routine. Made the run from the roof to the inverter on the north side first
floor in about 40 minutes. No conduit bending. The end connectors are kind
of pricey, but the time saved is huge.

Hilton

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Hilton Dier III
Renewable Energy Design
Partner, Solar Gain LLC
453 East Hill Rd.
Middlesex, VT 05602

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