[TowerTalk] Guy Tensioning

[StellarCAT]

Wellllll Steve.... here’s my point ... so many many times on this group you get the response to a question: “what did your PE say about it”? Or the return comment will be “trust the manufacturer”! And, although I don’t believe a PE is needed for anything other than out of the ordinary designs and/or where required (here its not) and one can just use the manufacturers info to design by – I agree with these points wholeheartedly. 

I have to believe NO PE would sign off on this – saying “its ok” ... nor would the manufacturer say “SET TENSION TO 10% max” if they didn’t mean it! THEIR ratings are based on these minimum settings. 

SO I don’t know that one can be so precise following the ‘learned ones’ instructions on most things and say unscientifically “this one isn’t as important”... 

I say this with all respect to you and others suggesting its not that important – but disagree in terms that, if you were on the opposite side, I know you’d agree because I’ve seen you admonish people for not following the manufacturers specs. 

As for “no one uses them anymore” ... I don’t remember seeing any distinction on using LOOS gauges (models) – mostly just the name LOOS gauges. Besides the fact that the 2 I had tested the old (B) and the new (PT2) were within practical consideration the same and both woefully low compared to the PT.

Gary 
K9RX

I’ll have a picture of the new tower/antennas on my QRZ page in the next day or so... I’ve got to get orders out to pay for all of this :>)


From: K7LXC at aol.com 
Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2016 8:49 PM
To: rxdesign at ssvecnet.com 
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Guy Tensioning

>  WOW. I was blown away. All the 7 years I had my loaded tower up in AZ I had 
the same tension - so it too was under tensioned.

    Well, it's nothing I would lose any sleep over. I think it was 100% reliable and did a marvelous job for you. Too little tension can be a problem if there's slack in the guys but IMO it's more important that all the guys are equally tensioned and the Loos will get you close enough. IMO.

>  So I'm going to adjust the bottom set of guys using the PT and then once it 
is set correctly at 660# I will then compare it to the LOOS and I'll then 
have a comparison point I can pass along to anyone using the Loos (model B)

    Heck, nobody uses them anymore - hi.

Cheers,
Steve    K7LXC