Rain Bird The Freedom System for Maxicom, Instruction Manual

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Installing the Freedom System
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Additional required equipment
• Heavy-duty antenna mast for mounting the central antenna (Radio Shack
model #15-843). The antenna mast must be five-feet long, 16-gauge steel,
enamel finished, and 1 1/4-inch diameter.
• Steel brackets for mounting the antenna mast. Choose one of the following
options:
–Gable roof mount (Radio Shack model #15-889)
–Eight-inch wall mount (Radio Shack model #15-885)
–Roof eaves mount (Radio Shack model #15-891)
–Chimney mount (Radio Shack model #15-839)
–Three-feet tripod mount (Radio Shack model #15-516)
• Ten-gauge (or larger) bare copper grounding wire for grounding the antenna
and coaxial cable surge arrestor or static discharge device.
• Panduit copper grounding terminal lug (model #CX70-14-C).
• Coaxial cable surge arrestor (PolyPhaser model #IS-IE50LU-C1) with
bracket for mounting. For ordering information, contact:
PolyPhaser Corporation
P.O. Box 9000
Minden, NV 89423-9000
Telephone: 1-800-325-7170
702-782-2511
www.polyphaser.com
• Two brass ground wire clamps for securing wires to a grounding rod. (May
not be required for your installation if you can use an existing MAXI three-
rod grounding grid, and you can attach it to the grounding screws on the
MGP-1 grounding plate assembly.)
• Three eight-feet long copper clad grounding rods arranged in a triangular
pattern. Each rod should be a minimum of eight feet from any other rod. Tie
the ground rods together below the ground by using a 10-gauge (or larger)
bare copper ground wire between the rods. Connect the wire to the rods
using brass clamps (Radio Shack model #15-529).
The step above is not required if you can connect a three-rod grounding grid
for the central Maxicom
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equipment to the ground wires from the coaxial
cable surge arrestor and the antenna.
• Guy wires and anchors to stabilize the antenna. These are only required if the
antenna needs to be stabilized.
–Galvanized guy wire (Radio Shack model #15-030 or #15-031)
–Guy wire anchors (Radio Shack model #15-825)
–Guy wire turnbuckles (Radio Shack model #15-829)
–Guy wire clamps (Radio Shack model #15-850)
–1 1/4-inch guy wire ring and collar (Radio Shack model #15-835)