1) If you have soft limits available, you set them at appropriate spots.
2) If you thought it through as far as which leg of the tower to use,
you shouldn't often need to get close to hitting the tower.
3) If you're using a typical low torque rotator, no damage is done if
you run the boom into the tower. The point of impact is far enough from
the rotator that there isn't much force happening out there. Arrange
your cabling so it doesn't get squeezed in that event.
4) You could devise a cushion. You're not going to harm the tower. But
you don't want to leave the boom parked against the tower where constant
wind could eventually impact an aluminum boom if it's a thin walled type.
-Steve K8LX
On 06/05/20 17:41 PM, Robert Harmon wrote:
Dumb question. When using the swinging gate, how do you make sure when the
rotator swings it around it won't hit the tower ?
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