Seems to me that some Cowboy Engineering could solve this problem…unless you’re worried that your customers may see such engineering and draw the wrong impression about your EMC testing prowess.
I don’t know what your length discrepancy is (a couple of inches, a few feet, 10 yards???). For anything from a few inches to a few feet; it seems that you could play some tricks with a small piece of PVC pipe to take up the slack. The solution could be something as simple as a short piece of schedule 40 PVC around which you wrap the excess. You could even glue a couple of T’s on the ends to make sure the rope doesn’t’ slip over the ends. On the other hand; I’m sure that there are some off the shelf parts to do what you want…I just can’t think of any. Good luck Chris Maxwell Design Engineer Nettest _____ From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Elliott Mac-FME001 Sent: Thursday, August 04, 2005 1:59 PM To: [email protected] Cc: Maxson Rick-EPRO31 Subject: Antenna Mast Tie Downs - Non Conductive Tensioners Group, We have an antenna mast that is used at 3 m and 10m distances. The tie down spots for each position is not equi-distant at each location, which means that a fixed length tie down rope is not possible. We have to adjust the rope for each spot. The way we are doing it now leaves some play in the ropes and opens the possibility for a wind gust to cause problems. I am looking for a nonconductive tensioner or clamp that I can put at the end of the rope that will allow us to adjust the rope so that it is tight at both positions. Does anybody out there have any ideas or suggestions? The only other options that I have at the moment is to bore new tie down spots or use a metal strap tensioner, which I would rather steer clear of if possible . Thanks in advance. Best Regards, Mac Elliott email: [email protected] phone: 954-723-5480 ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message is from the IEEE Product Safety Engineering Society emc-pstc discussion list. Website: http://www.ieee-pses.org/ To post a message to the list, send your e-mail to [email protected] Instructions: http://listserv.ieee.org/listserv/request/user-guide.html List rules: http://www.ieee-pses.org/listrules.html For help, send mail to the list administrators: Scott Douglas [email protected] Mike Cantwell [email protected] For policy questions, send mail to: Richard Nute: [email protected] Jim Bacher: [email protected] All emc-pstc postings are archived and searchable on the web at: http://www.ieeecommunities.org/emc-pstc
