Thursday, July 12, 2012

Irrigation wire

The guys are installing pipe and station wire on #6. There are thousands of miles of 14gauge copper wire throughout the golf course. The big green wire is a wire that is being installed for future use. The newer full systems can be put in without miles of 14 gauge copper wire. It is just one 2-wire chord that travels from head to head. This saves money because you don't have to put a dedicated station wire to every head (like we have now). They also have no satellite boxes on the golf course. So in the future when we have to replace the rest of the irrigation system we would just continue this green wire and eliminate all the red and white 14 gauge wire - the grey boxes with the yellow antennas would also go away.

3 comments:

  1. Brent,
    Your blog is wonderful. The project is massive. I am enjoying following it along every day. Thank you.

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  2. Hmmm. 14 gauge copper wire weighs about 60 lbs/mile. At $3.50/lb, that's $210 per mile. Can I have the wire? :)

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  3. Is that really over a thousand miles?

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