Wayne: My tower came directly from the company without any stops in
between. The driver had a goose neck trailer hooked to a heavy duty, dual
wheel pickup truck. He also had a farm tractor on the trailer. He told me to
be careful of the limit switches. A couple of us inspected the tower and could
find no damage. I think that the key was no fork lift drivers in between
delivery stops!!!
By any chance do you remember the NC/ NO positions for each of the
switches? If so, I would like to get them and record them for possible future
use.
I would like to check the operation of the motor/ limit switches before
installing the antenna and cables. Is there an easy way to do this. With the
tower vertical, horizontal, etc??????
Maybe I have received all the documentation that U S Towers normally sends
with a new tower? In any case, I am still going to contact Gary next week and
talk to him about it. I really expected a more complete documentation package
for a purchase of over $10,000.
Thanks for your comments!!!
Bernard, WA4OEJ
----- Original Message -----
From: Wayne Kline
To: Bernard ; towerTalk
Sent: Friday, August 15, 2008 11:11 PM
Subject: RE: [TowerTalk] U S Tower Documentation
I have installed a number of US towers both MA and TM series. There
Documentation leaves much to be desired. One install the shipper had damaged
the crate and upon inspection the limit switch wires were totally riped from
the tower at the limit switches and the top limit trip arm was broken. Getting
the replacement parts was no problem. But trying to get them to divulge the
color code and to answer a simple question " the top limit switch in the
nested position, is it NC or NO ?" was like pulling chicken teeth. I never
did get a answer, and I rung the control box/limit switch wiring on the owners
dime :( UMMV
Wayne W3EA.
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> To: towertalk@contesting.com
> Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2008 20:21:21 -0500
> Subject: [TowerTalk] U S Tower Documentation
>
> I am in the process of installing a U. S. Tower motorized MA-850 with the
rotor base. I am wondering what others who ordered motorized U. S. Towers
received for documentation. I did not receive an information package when the
tower arrived so I have called U. S. Tower, several times, asking for various
documentation, Each time, they seemed very helpful, but the documentation that
I subsequently received was very skimpy. I expected a more complete
documentation package on the tower and some sort of instruction manual
describing the assembly and operation of the motor unit and remote control
>
> What have the rest of you received?
>
> 73s
>
> Bernard, WA4OEJ
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