In a message dated 4/25/2007 3:07:47 P.M. Pacific Daylight Time,
towertalk-request@contesting.com writes:
> Inadequate guy tension causes excessive guy catenary. Guy catenary is a
function of guy tension and the weight of the guy wire and all associated
hardware (e.g., insulators and guy grips).
> Excessive guy catenary allows excessive tower movement during wind
events. Tower movement slackens the down wind guy(s) during wind events.
Repeated
slackening and tightening leads guy hardware failure.
It's also called 'wind slamming' which is a little more graphic. Either
way you've got potential trouble.
Cheers,
Steve K7LXC
TOWER TECH
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