Actually anything from 8% to 15% will work without too much difference
in guy wire vibration excited by the wind.
de n0yvy steve
CQK8DO@aol.com wrote:
>
> Yup... This topic was extensively covered... The concensus (at least my
> opinion of the concensus:) and my experience, is to just use it per factory
> calibration... I lifted a 480 pound load (6 bags of cement) with 3/16 EHS and
> used the Loos on it, and the difference was minimal... Guy wire tension
> changes from a cold day to a hot day exceed any error due to the differences
> between EHS and sailboat rigging...
>
> You have to note that the recommended preload is 10%... TEN PERCENT.... Now
> think about it... do you believe that any laboratory experiment in the real
> world would come out 10%, as opposed to 8.194% or 13.062%, etc... The fact
> that it is ten percent tells you that the senior engineer was asked by the
> sales department, "What preload should we put in the advertising
> material?"... and he said, "Oh, ten percent will work." and that is how it
> became 10%....
>
> Denny
>
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