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Re: Easiest way to route ~10-12 feet of wire on a telescoping lift?

Use that spiral-type wire wrap to bundle all the wires together. Attach one end to the highest fixed point on the lift, and the other to the top.

That bundle could weigh about 5 lbs, though. Trust me, 330 did that in 2004 to run some wires and pneumatic tubes to the top of our 10+ foot lift. Let's see... 2 wires for the Van Door motor (slider), 4 wires for the two Globes (upper arm section), 2 pneumatic tubes (the piston to extend the upper arm section). Oh, and the globe wires and pneumatic tubes had to go over the top of that arm's pivot... Other than being really heavy (the aforementioned 5 lbs estimate), it worked pretty well.
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