[TowerTalk] Effective moment and K-factor. Was: Yaesu rotators

[Alan AB2OS]

Somebody suggested in a private message (not to the reflector) that they 
are different: "effective moment" takes into account the distance from 
the axis of each component of the total load, whereas Yaesu's "K-factor" 
assumes that the whole of the load is located at the farthest point from 
the axis. (That's my summary of his argument, not his precise wording.) 
Thus the "K-factor" is an extremely conservative approximation of the 
effective moment.

Would you agree?

Alan AB2OS


On 07/01/04 01:10 pm K7LXC at aol.com put fingers to keyboard and launched 
the following message into cyberspace:

>>Is Yaesu's "K-factor" the same as Hy-Gain's "Effective moment"?

> Yes - they are both weight times turning radius.