K6MR was kind enough to send me an article by K5IU that sheds some light
on this issue. It's not intuitive (at least for me), but when you look
at his drawings of the vectors and accept the formulas, you can see that
the boom does NOT go in-line with the wind even in the case of a one
element yagi with the element at one end of the boom.
K5IU shows, in the course of debunking commonly accepted methods of
determining wind area of a yagi, that when you have crossed tubes, the
minimum wind force occurs when NONE of the tubes are either in-line with
or perpendicular with the wind. It doesn't matter how the elements are
distributed. Only the relative areas of the boom vs the elements. If the
areas are the same, than minimum wind force occurs at 45° offset. If one
or the other has more area, than it's some other angle, but always
oblique from the wind direction.
By extension (my take from the article) is that if allowed to, the
assembly WILL rotate to the minimum wind force position. It may be that
the torque for a given wind speed is not all that great, but the torque
must be there.
So it still seems to me that the assertion that yagis are automatically
torque balanced just by mounting them at the boom center is not true.
I hope Dick Weber won't mind if I post a url to his article.
https://app.box.com/s/40l9icahrtlpqoyd0zppp9vdxn5ck1xc
-Steve K8LX
On 9/3/2019 10:59 AM, dj7ww@t-online.de wrote:
No, the wind aerea at the boom side with the element on is much larger then on
the opposite side and turns the boom into the direction of the wind, always!
73
Peter
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Betreff: Re: [TowerTalk] High VSWR
Datum: 2019-09-03T14:21:19+0200
Von: "Steve Maki" <lists@oakcom.org>
An: "towertalk" <towertalk@contesting.com>
I can't wrap my head around this.
Yes, the element is "torque balanced" at it's own center, but at the
boom center? I think not.
-Steve K8LX
On 09/02/19 12:41 PM, Jim Thomson wrote:
## vane NOT required if boom mounted at center. Counterweight IS
required....at light end.
## Longer eles... and number of eles has nothing to do with with it.
Each ele is symetrical...so the eles are already tq balanced . If
wind hits the eles at an angle...... and viewed from above... left side
of eles bends CW.....
meanwhile right side of ele bends CCW...... they cancel out...... or vice
versa. The eles are still tq balanced.
## I tried this experiment. 40 ft boom..... mounted at exact center
of boom....to mast. Only ONE 20m ELE USED...THE REF..... mounted of
course, at extreme end of boom. no counterweight used for this test.
No coax, no rotor.
Does not rotate, nor ....weathervane, etc. Stays put, regardless of
windspeed, or where boom was oriented by hand.
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