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Figure 4: U-Bolt installation
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. Handling of
the sensor package with wind vane and anemometer installed to install
these bolts is more difficult and more likely to lead to damage.
4.2.2
Install wind vane
Push the wind vane onto the shaft on the opposite side of the wind cups,
until it goes no further, as shown on the left side in Figure 6. Next, tighten
the set screw, with a Philips screwdriver (size PH0), as shown on the right
side, until the wind vane cannot be removed from the axle. Make sure the
wind vane can rotate freely. The wind vane’s movement has a small
amount of friction, which is helpful in providing steady wind direction
measurements
Figure 5: Wind vane installation diagram
