We have a 3 year old winegard carryout and just ordered our 3rd power cord - is there any alternative for the blankety blank plug that just ceases to work?

I am assuming this is the WINEGARD RPGM52 Power Cord you are referring too. What part of it fails.. This is just a 50-foot extension cord for 12VDC... AMAZON has it listed for around $28Google ImageIf the two pin connector is getting corrosion than maybe you can rig up a 1-inch piece of heat shrink tubing to go over both the connections to make it more weather proof... Hardware stores like True Value - Lowes sell short pieces of heat shrink material in a 4-6 each to a package.. You can tie wrap or heat shrink one end and allow the other end to slip over the receptacle perhaps...Roy Ken

The attachment to the antenna is the part that fails and I'm told it is a proprietary part. It seems to tear loose from the connection.

I have not seen or used one of those but the word proprietary usually just means they can charge more for it. If what we are talking about here is a WINEGARD RPGM52 you can buy this exact item from AMAZON for around $28...WINEGARD RPGM52 AMAZONgoogle imageIf it looks like the AMAZON part shown above I would get one of those and make the connections and slip some one inch heat shrink material over both connections and heat shrink both ends. That will give you alot of strength against being pulled apart... You would want to slip the heat shrink tubing on the cable end before you connect both ends together. The heat shrink may not fit over the 12VDC plug on the other end to be slid all the way down to the antenna side where those two connectors are located. Then after I heat shrinked both end i would use some small tie wraps and tightned down on both ends of the heat shrink. This isn't going to be ripped off very easy...You probably always have the 50-foot extension cord connected so it would not make any difference to make it more permanent connection. Seems silly to have to keep purchasing a new one every six months or so...Just some of my thoughts here...Roy Ken

AFter looking at where you plug in the 12VDC Plug I can understand alittle more about how easy it may be pulled out easily...Roy's image from PDF manualIt still looks like once you make the connection you can use something like heat shrink tubing to seal around the connection next to the Carryout Unit and make it more difficult to be ripped out...Definitely needs to do something along this line to keep from having to keep purchasing new extension cords...I probably would make the connection and slip the heat shrink over both the plug part and the receptacle part and shrink it in place. Then I would add a small tie wrap around the receptacle part to keep it more secure in place. This would definitely make it more weather tight as well. Then I would just leave the 12VDC extension cord in place all the the time and wrap up the 25 or 50-foot length around the the carry out... Enough of me rattling on here haha. Maybe some others on here will have some ideas as well...Again just my thoughts here I heat shrink all of my outside DC connections around my battery bank etc... They also make adhesive type heat shrink tubing that is excellent for doing the battery ring terminal connection for use outside where weather tight connections are important...Roy Ken

I changed my dish ends out to the flat two conductor used in many RVs.It has not failed since changing them out. I used a cable tie to secure the connector in the dish so there would be no stain on electrical connections.When using crimp connectors and heat shrink, inject electrical grease into connector prior to crimping and heat shrinking.

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RoyB
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Sep 11, 2016
I am assuming this is the WINEGARD RPGM52 Power Cord you are referring too. What part of it fails.. This is just a 50-foot extension cord for 12VDC... AMAZON has it listed for around $28

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If the two pin connector is getting corrosion than maybe you can rig up a 1-inch piece of heat shrink tubing to go over both the connections to make it more weather proof... Hardware stores like True Value - Lowes sell short pieces of heat shrink material in a 4-6 each to a package.. You can tie wrap or heat shrink one end and allow the other end to slip over the receptacle perhaps...

Roy Ken

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