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and has a curved profile (which will end up “hugging” the mounting
pole). Once the metal plate is inserted, remove nuts from the U-Bolts and
insert both U-bolts through the respective holes of the metal plate as
shown in Figure 2.
Figure 2: U-Bolt installation
Loosely screw on the nuts on the ends of the U-bolts. You will tighten
these later during final mounting. Final assembly is shown in Figure 3.
Figure 3: U-Bolts and nuts installed
The plate and U-Bolts are not yet needed at this stage but doing this now
may help avoid damaging wind vane and wind speed cups later on.
Handling of the sensor package with wind vane and speed cups installed
to install these bolts is more difficult and more likely to lead to damage.
