Product Manual

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WeatherHawk®
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5. Tighten the guy-wire bracket bolts until they deform the mast by dimpling the surface to assure the bracket
does not slide when the turnbuckles are tightened.
6. Unscrew the turnbuckle until approximately 80% of both eye bolt threads extend beyond the turnbuckle
body.
7. Hook an S-hook to an eyelet on each of the tripod feet. Alternatively, the S-hooks can be connected to
user-supplied eye-bolts set into a concrete pad or another fixed structure.
8. One at a time, grasp a guy-wire and loop it around its corresponding S-hook to roughly determine its
correct length then cut the guy-wires to eliminate any excess length.
9. Hook the unattached end of each S-hook to an eyebolt on the end of a turnbuckle.
10. Loop the free end of each guy-wire through its respective turnbuckle eye-bolt and pull it tightly then clamp
the guy-wire using one of the clamps provided.
a. The guy-wires need to remain loose until after the WeatherHawk assembly has been properly
oriented. The turn-buckles are tightened in step 5 of Procedure 3: Mounting the WeatherHawk Station
on a Tripod or Pole.
b. Guy-wires will stretch for a few weeks after installation. You should periodically check them for
tension and re-tighten the turnbuckles as required until they stop stretching.
Procedure 3: Mounting a Signature Series Station on a Tripod or Pole
This procedure assumes the WeatherHawk has been setup and tested at the computer location, and that a
tripod or pole has been installed at the site.
1. Place your WeatherHawk assembly on top of the mast or pole with the base firmly seated on the top edge
of the mast or pole (Figure 23).
WeatherHawk Base
Mast or Pole
Figure 23: The WeatherHawk
assembly properly seated on a
mast or pole.