Dave, You have a very good suggestion that has not been brought up
before. Mount the rotor lower in the tower or at the bottom to
reduce the twisting action. Excellent.
David Jordan wrote:
> ...one method to increase longevity of the HDBX48 tower is to mount the
> rotor on the tower base section using angle steel and a rotor mounting
> plate or directly on the concrete pad and run a 2" pipe up the center
> of the tower. This installation method makes for easy maintenance on
> the rotor (no climbing) and removes most if not all the twist moment
> forces from the latice tower which is typically the primary reason for
> failures of the tower (the revits get loose from all the twisting and
> eventually can pop out) next to over loading the tower.
> dave
> wa3gin
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