Hey Nat,
I have my rotor plate mounted down at the bottom of the of my "rocket top"
section of 25G. The secret I found was to mount the plate under the
horizontal bracing at the bottom of the top section rather than on top of
the horizontal bracing of the section below. Use spacers or washers so the
rotor housing will clear the thickness of the bracing. I use a Hy-Gain
CD45-II, and if mounted it as you propose, it must be installed as you
assemble the sections. It cannot be removed from the tower because it gets
hung up on the bracing. If you install it as I did, it is possible to fish
the rotor from inside the section without doing any cutting to the zig-zag
bracing. You can also install another rotor plate at the normal location
and mount a thrust bearing on it if you want.
Tom K3GM
>
> My Rohn 25G 30' house bracketed tower is almost up and time to start
> thinking about putting "stuff" on it... Here is my newbie question for
the
> week.
>
> Per a recent suggestion on towertalk, I want to mount the rotor down from
> the very top of the tower so it is somewhat easier to get to... However,
> The rotor plate seems made to fit only across the top of the side bracing
> at the very top end of a tower section. The plate u-bolts to the tower
> legs and it appears that if I try to attach the plate to a point in the
> middle of a section, the vertical pieces of the bracing will get in the
> way. The only ways around this would seem to be to attach the plate at
the
> top of the next to the last section (requiring a >10' mast just to clear
> the top of the tower) or to cut notches in the plate so that it clears the
> vertical sections of the bracing (would require bolting the plate to the
> horizontal bracing rather than the tower legs).
>
> Am I wrong in this? Suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Nat
> N4EL
>
>
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