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Received mine in sunny Los Angeles yesterday. Thank you for the great coop.

Ray

Please include me for 1 Etherdongle.

Thanks, Ray

If I were doing it I would run two 3/4" conduits at least two feet apart as much of the run as possible. If you were going up a post put one on one side and the other on a different side. you also might want to use metal conduit from just below ground to the boxes that way the weed whacker will not break the conduit and ruin the cables inside. I would run at least 2 cat 5e cables to jacks in a two gang box to leave a nice service loop so if I need to change the jacks I had the cable. You might wonder why at least 2 cat 5e, 1 for the RS-422 network and the others for anything else like sound, video, Ethernet, cameras.

Ray

If you look at most of your power supplies they are now made to run from 100 to 240 volts AC so a little drop from 120 should not be a problem. If your supplies are not the new wide voltage ones it might be cheaper to up grade them and go with the 10/3 idea also keep your eye's open for used contractors job site cables sometimes the bigger companies replace or throw out the cables with a nick in the outer jack but the inside conductors are fine.

Ray

Thank you also for doing the coop. Got mine in Los Angeles today and already half way done building.

Ray

This is not an endorsement but one place to check out is ServoCity.com they list the servos by types and and the specs, they also show different mounts and ways to take some of the load off the servo and put it on the mount.

Ray

Why not use a Crydom D2W203F Solid State Relay, 3 volt turn on at 3ma draw.

Ray