actuator motor and ethernet cable

[i4tas]

So I wanted to move my FTA box and my v-box to the upstairs room, but didn't want to fish the walls and wire up a brand new sprinkler cable for the actuator box. My solution was to take a 15 foot ethernet cable cut it in half and reroute the basement plug from the router to the motor line in from outside and then take the other half of the cable plug it into the upstairs room ethernet connection and then into the v-box.

I would not suggest this for a long outdoor run, but smaller runs inside the house seem to work... Since I was using only 4 cables, I decided to double up and 2 of the 8 for to make 4.

It was the quickest wiring job I ever had to do!

 

[Lak7]

Yikes!

 

[netbuilder]

I was actually thinking of doing the same thing with 2 CAT5e cables.

1 Cable, 4 wires to the + motor power, 4 wires to the - motor power.

1 Cable, 2 wires for each of the signal lines, giving me 4 wires as a spare.

I believe that gives me enough awg to run the connection, and as you said not a long run.

 

[Lak7]

To me, that just seem like a lot of current for such a small wire.
Especially if the is a load of snow or wind

 

[Cadsulfide]

I would not recommend it.