{"id":12,"date":"2016-02-03T22:45:00","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T22:45:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-11-22T10:03:16","modified_gmt":"2017-11-22T16:03:16","slug":"mr-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/n5hrk-blog\/mr-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr Clean"},"content":{"rendered":"

The final (in as much as anything in this hobby is ever really final) piece for making the radio end of my RemoteRig setup neat and tidy arrived today, a RIGrunner DC power panel.
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I have a tabletop 19 inch rack<\/a>, a couple of shelves<\/a> for it and plug strip<\/a> with individually switched outlets. I will place into this rack all the equipment out in the workshop, the IC-706mkIIg, IT-100 tuner and RemoteRig.<\/p>\n

I also hope to put my ethernet switch and VeraLite home automation controller in there as well, though such close proximity to the transmitters might be an issue for those devices.<\/p>\n

This panel is kinda overkill for the three devices run off the one power supply (really only two since the tuner is powered from it’s connector to the radio) but I am almost certain that the VeraLite runs on a 12V supply and it’s quite likely that the ethernet switch does, too.<\/p>\n

Ironically, the toughest part of this project may be moving the station ground rod. The rack will be installed on a countertop that is on the other side of a door from where the current location is. To keep the ground wire short, it would make the most sense to pull the 8 foot ground rod and move it to the other side of the door as well. While I have a great tool<\/a>\u00a0for pulling with adequate force to remove the ground rod, it is driven really low to the surface and I will need to adapt a chain or some such to get it started. Plus, it’s really close the wall.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The final (in as much as anything in this hobby is ever really final) piece for making the radio end of my RemoteRig setup neat and tidy arrived today, a RIGrunner DC power panel. I have a tabletop 19 inch rack, a couple of shelves for it and plug strip with individually switched outlets. I … Continue reading Mr Clean<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-n5hrk-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1613,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12\/revisions\/1613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.n5hrk.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}