Interesting, curious what the heck you are cranking. I have a 70 foot
HG-70D and its about 500 turns up or down with the K2550. Good exercise
and I do it 100 at a time, pull weeds from the flower beds for a few
minutes or have a frosty 807, then continue and then go on to the next
external job my wife has for a short period. I have the motor control
that came with the tower and it sits new in the boxes. Not worth the
bother to install considering how often I take the tower up or down,
which is usually only once a year for some brief maintenance. Takes a
few turns to lay it over or raise it too as I use a double pulley
system. I also have a Tri-Ex WT-51 and it also has a low crank number as
I recall.
1000 up and another 10000 down though might make me rethink the latter.
Don W7WLL
On 3/20/2019 4:54 PM, Joe K2UF wrote:
Bob,
I have a 72 foot tri-ex tower . Have never user the motor control for it.
I have cranked it up and down manually many times. You are correct it takes
a lot of cranking. Once I counted the turns. It took about 1000 revs to
lower each section ( also 1000/sect. back up UGHHH).
Good luck,
73 Joe K2UF
-----Original Message-----
From: TowerTalk [mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of
Robert Harmon
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2019 7:40 PM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: [TowerTalk] Manually crank down a motorized tower
I have a US Tower HDX589MDPL with the motorized drum. I was wondering what
I would do in the event that something failed in the control box and I
needed to crank it down.
The gearbox has a worm gear and I believe I could temporarily take off the
chain and turn the gear box sprocket by hand. I would have to turn it until
the cows come home but I think I could crank it down. Am I correct about
this ? Have any of you had to crank down your motorized tower by hand ?
Bob
K6UJ
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