Wellllll Steve.... here’s my point ... so many many times on this group you get
the response to a question: “what did your PE say about it”? Or the return
comment will be “trust the manufacturer”! And, although I don’t believe a PE is
needed for anything other than out of the ordinary designs and/or where
required (here its not) and one can just use the manufacturers info to design
by – I agree with these points wholeheartedly.
I have to believe NO PE would sign off on this – saying “its ok” ... nor would
the manufacturer say “SET TENSION TO 10% max” if they didn’t mean it! THEIR
ratings are based on these minimum settings.
SO I don’t know that one can be so precise following the ‘learned ones’
instructions on most things and say unscientifically “this one isn’t as
important”...
I say this with all respect to you and others suggesting its not that important
– but disagree in terms that, if you were on the opposite side, I know you’d
agree because I’ve seen you admonish people for not following the manufacturers
specs.
As for “no one uses them anymore” ... I don’t remember seeing any distinction
on using LOOS gauges (models) – mostly just the name LOOS gauges. Besides the
fact that the 2 I had tested the old (B) and the new (PT2) were within
practical consideration the same and both woefully low compared to the PT.
Gary
K9RX
I’ll have a picture of the new tower/antennas on my QRZ page in the next day or
so... I’ve got to get orders out to pay for all of this :>)
From: K7LXC@aol.com
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 8:49 PM
To: rxdesign@ssvecnet.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Guy Tensioning
> WOW. I was blown away. All the 7 years I had my loaded tower up in AZ I had
the same tension - so it too was under tensioned.
Well, it's nothing I would lose any sleep over. I think it was 100%
reliable and did a marvelous job for you. Too little tension can be a problem
if there's slack in the guys but IMO it's more important that all the guys are
equally tensioned and the Loos will get you close enough. IMO.
> So I'm going to adjust the bottom set of guys using the PT and then once it
is set correctly at 660# I will then compare it to the LOOS and I'll then
have a comparison point I can pass along to anyone using the Loos (model B)
Heck, nobody uses them anymore - hi.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
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