Wish we had a Lowes here in the VI but I will look and see if Home Depot
has a solid wire equivalent. They have THHN is stranded but I am not
sure about solid insulated #14 as i have not ever seen that.
Herb, KV4FZ
On 6/26/2014 8:17 AM, Dave Heil wrote:
That seems a little too much work when Lowe's sells 500 foot spools of
insulated #14 for $45.
73,
Dave K8MN
On 6/24/2014 19 46, Herb Schoenbohm wrote:
I found a great source for radial wire at home Depot where they have
100' rolls of 14-2 packaged for under $40. Two conductors are insulated
and one of course is not after the easy job of striping them across a
bench jig or simple having a second person hold a pocket knife while you
pull the conductors apart you end up with 300 feet of higher quality
ground radial material. 2 each 100 foot insulated radials due to the VF
are very close to 1/4 wave consideration and the the shorter 100 foot
bare doesn't hurt either. This of course brings up the issue of mixing
bare and insulated wire in any ground system so I use the bare conductor
for other 80 and 40 verticals. Yet the sum of the three wires is
cheaper than buying them individually it seems.
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