8 core cable?

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Anyone know where I can get an 8-core cable from? Would want to drive two jacks using a single run of cable. Currently using an alarm cable :-hide which works well enough but want something beefier...
 

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Would cat 5 flexible be better? It's stranded so more suited for usage involving movement.
 

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Get your nearest Electrical wholesaler CEF will probably have something in you need
 

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I thought about CAT5 so might be an option. I would like something beefier though.

Thanks digi, there's one 10 mins drive away from me!
 

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Called 'caravan' cable (not trailer version as it requires the reversing light connection as the eighth wire) can be bought off eBay in 10 metre sections.

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Yes ebay is the way to go I bought some for my Yaesu rotator/elevator radio aerial last year.

I bought double length which I installed ''parallel" to minimise voltage drop pretty cheap to!
 

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Q, please, i have stops in my actuator that I have used and not set the stops in stb, my thinking is ? that 2 of the wires needed are to set stops ?,

if so ? only 2 wires would be needed if stops was made manually inside the actuator ????.
 

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Stops? You mean the limits? In my actuator, there are two wheels with a notch on each. I have to adjust these to set the limits - when the notch hits a small switch, it cuts power to the motor.
 

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Stops? You mean the limits? In my actuator, there are two wheels with a notch on each. I have to adjust these to set the limits - when the notch hits a small switch, it cuts power to the motor.

yes C/J but I thought 2 of the wires was for setting limits in the stb if you set them in the actuator you only need 2 wires not 4 ???.
 

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I'm not sure what you're asking but a 36V motor uses 4 wires, from a reeiver, like the old Echostar 3600, or V-Box. The main two are for drivng the motor, the other 2 are listed as sensor and ground, the sensor, I would assume, is for counting and ground self evident.
When setting up my first motor I used a battery, out of a house alarm, to position the motor correctly, taking account of my true south compared to the satellite I was setting up on, a 3 degree variant. For this I used just the 2 motor wires.
You could use the same method to set up any hardware limits, on your motor, but for the software limits, on your receiver I should think you need to use all 4 wires.
 

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..36V motor uses 4 wires, from a reeiver, like the old Echostar 3600, or V-Box. The main two are for drivng the motor, the other 2 are listed as sensor and ground, the sensor, I would assume, is for counting and ground self evident.
and 5V if you're using an optical sensor ;)
 

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I don't quite follow what you mean. The two wires are for the reed sensor and the other two are the 36V ones. That's all you need - you can set the limit on the VBox (software mode) or the actuator (hardware mode).
 
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