Ha, looks like @jgentry is blocking anyone who even visits his twitter 
I didn’t even follow him or comment before, and yet he blocked me after just one like, strange 
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What’s your Twitter handle?
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Looks great, just be aware that you may get false rain from vibrations transmitting from the fence into the pole.
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Thanks. I purposely put it on the side without the gate to avoid vibrations from opening and closing.
I was originally going to mount on my garage roof to an old satellite mast but I really didn’t want to go out on the roof and the Tempest siting info said most people don’t need it up that high.
I’m new to the forum but an on & off user of the Tempest for two years plus. I’ve had a couple faulty units originally installed on the soffit at the peak of my roof. At 70+ yrs. old, I had an installer put it up until I needed 3 visits for resetting the unit, and since pulled it down debating where else to install it. The photo attached shows the original spot and my chosen spots to use now, but I want to get as high as possible for clean air, my main objective. Galvanized pipe was nixed as a lightning point (short of a grounding strap traveling 3 stories down) with no other high points in a coastal area. So a 1" PVC Schedule 80 pipe is my current choice but how high is recommended where we have 50+ winds on occasion. What are recommendations here?
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I just sent a request for help on installation but it came in the middle of old entries, wondering if it will get lost there. Is there any way to make it current?
As i have read in previous posts most recommendations, especially for wind accuracy is to have it as far away from big objects i.e houses, sheds.
Looking at your picture the area highlighted on the right as we look at it would be where I’d try mounting.
My local ordinance is flag poles can be no higher than 8’ off the upper deck. So I assume pvc sched. 80 at that height would be ok mounting over galvanized requiring a grounding, etc.?
After over three years of use on this mount I had to replace my original Tempest today due to an internal battery failure. I will never be able to get it above the sounding trees for accurate wind but has worked well for everything else.
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Considering all your hardware failures, you are definitely a trusting soul, or you have to get in a number of climbing steps on your Fitbit or something…
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omfg that is insane haha
Crank-up tower???
After the failure in April I put it on a tripod on the roof. It’s at 33’ but shadowed compared to being 75’ AGL for sure!
That tower is a Rohn 25G, six sections. No crank up. But it’s on a hinge base and can be winched down. I used to climb much higher but not so much these days!
I would love to put a 45G in the pasture rising up about 100-125’ or so. Lots of work doing that with a gin pole and guy brackets every 30 feet or so. That would need to climbed which is a bummer. At the top pushing a 21’ piece of 1 1/4" SCH80 galvanized pipe takes some muscle. The noise from the set screws in the thrust bearings will register about half a foot of rain on the haptic sensor! I usually pull power to the hub to prevent that LOL!