[Towertalk] Hy-Gain Tail Twister

[Pete Smith]

At 09:36 PM 10/11/02 -0400, k4oj wrote:
>what sized conductor wire and how far away are the rotor is the shack... 
>may be a voltage drop issue - or it could be your mast is not true and it 
>is seized up - this can occur if a rotor shelf is installed first as 
>opposed to after the rotor being attached and socked down onto the mast - 
>also if it is a pipe top top section and that pipe is not true you could 
>get binding, or if your mast is bowed/bent...none of these would keep the 
>brake from opening or closing but could spell disaster as far as 
>rotating.  Have you loosened the mast in the rotor to make sure it will 
>spin freely? If not I would start there.

Couldn't it also be a mast that is not the designed size for the rotator, 
not properly shimmed, so that it binds in certain positions, particularly 
when the wind blows?  I've never understood the engineering that produced 
the Hy-Gain mast clamp design...


73, Pete N4ZR
Sometimes a tower is just a tower