Raising The Tower; Adjusting Guy Wires - Primus Wind Power EZ Tower Owner's Manual

Raising the Tower

Primus Wind Power, Inc. highly recommends first tilting the tower into
position without the wind turbine attached, to verify proper installation
and operation of the tower.
IMPORTANT: Ensure that all side and rear guy wires are attached
and that all cable clamps are tight before raising the tower.
1. Before raising the tower, have another person ready to assist with
installation.
Note: Be sure to wear gloves when handling the guy wires!
2. One person should push the tower up into position. The other person
should pull by the unattached upper guy wire. With the tower off the
ground a few feet, make sure that all the wires are coming up cleanly.
Adjusting the Guy Wires
If the guy wires are too tight they may cause the tower to bow as it is
raised. If this happens, lower the tower to the ground and reduce the ten-
sion on the guy wires.
• Check to see which wire(s) are too tight (the wires act in pairs).
• Release the tension on one of the wires by loosening the 2 cable clamps
until the cable can be slid through them
• Let out some cable until there is no tension in the wire.
CAUTION: It is easy to over tighten the guy wires. Wires
should only have the slack taken out with no real tension.
3. Retighten the cable clamps before raising the tower.
4. Once the tower is raised to vertical, attach the last guy wires to their
anchor.
5. Walk a short distance from the tower and look to see that it is straight.
6. Focus on the angle of the tower. Adjust the
cables until the tower is straight up and down. Use
a carpenter's level held against the tower for this.
7. To adjust the angle of the tower, relax one guy
wire and tighten the guy wire opposite to it. Re-
peat this process until the tower is straight.
8. When the tower is straight, make sure that all
cable clamps are tight.
9. After all the adjustments have been made,
lower the tower.
IMPORTANT: When the tower is lowered to install the wind turbine, undo only
the pull-side cables. When adjusting the cables, NEVER loosen both sets of guy
wires at the same time. When the tower is re-erected, only those pull-side cables
will need to be readjusted.
EZ Tower Owner's Manual, Rev A 19
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