[SBE] High Intensity Tower Light (1000ft tower) Maintenancebudget

[Ron Baker]

I had nearly the same experiance. I want to add that Dialight responeded
immediatly, over nighted the new ones and paid the tower company to install
them.

On Sat, Feb 20, 2010 at 8:52 PM, Bob Reite <br at telcen.com> wrote:


> I've seen a strobe system advertised in which the electronics is on the

> ground, with minimal parts in the strobe head.  At least if those fail, you

> don't have the tower crew cost for repair of the electronics.

>

>

> Fluker, Steve (CXR-Orlando) wrote:

>

>>  Yes, the first generation of the Dialight LED beacons did have problems

>> around the high RF areas.  My top beacon would shut off when the Antenna was

>> hot, and if I dropped the carrier, the light would come right back on.  I'm

>> using the 3rd generation now and they work fine.  As Paul Reynolds said,

>> maintaining the strobes can be very expensive.  When I rebuilt a 1,500 foot

>> tower, we painted it and used LED's.  Not looking forward to the cost of

>> repainting down the line, but so far it's saving money with the LED lights.

>>  I've also replaced the lighting on three other towers with LED's and so far

>> have had good luck.  Two AM towers were outfitted with LED's about 4 years

>> ago and to date we've had no maintenance costs on either tower.

>>  Steve Fluker

>> Director of Engineering

>> Cox Radio, Orlandl

>>

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>> *From:* sbe-bounces at sbe.org on behalf of R.V.Zeigler

>> *Sent:* Fri 2/19/2010 3:46 PM

>> *To:* sbe member discussion mail list

>> *Subject:* [SBE] High Intensity Tower Light (1000ft tower)

>> Maintenancebudget

>>

>> If I could inject something here. Dialight supplied the first set of

>> beacons for our 1000' FM stick with 3 Class C FM's on discreet antennas.

>> They were abysmal and our supplier changed them to another brand. One

>> level of beacons sits directly between bays 5 and 6 of the bottom

>> antenna. The replacements lasted 6 months before we had all sorts of

>> intermittent and strange problems. Dialight sent me 2 replacement

>> beacons, which we installed over a year ago and they are working

>> wonderfully. Moral of my story, if you decide to go LED beacons I would

>> not be afraid to put the new Dialight's with RF shielding anywhere on

>> the tower.

>> We spent close to $15K trying to get the replacement beacons to work and

>> were looking at almost $50K to retrofit to incandescent when Dialight

>> came to the rescue. From a financial standpoint, it may be very

>> reasonable to paint the tower and retrofit to LED's. The longer you have

>> the property, the more you save every month.

>> BTW, the intermittent beacons work fine sitting on the bench in the

>> engineering shop.

>> Rod

>>

>> --

>> R. V. Zeigler, Dir. of Eng.

>> Nebraska Rural Radio Assn.

>> KRVN-KTIC-KNEB

>> rzeigler at krvn.com

>>

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