DAVIS Tripod Kit Install Manual

Product # 7716

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OUNTING

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RIPOD

For use with Davis’s Wireless, EZ-Mount, and Vantage Pro Weather Stations,
the Mounting Tripod simplifies installation. The tripod supports the sensor
array, and features an adjustable foot pad which enables mounting on any sur­face: flat, inclined, or level. The anemometer extension tube can be used to ele­vate the anemometer in installations where wind flow obstruction is a concern.

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OMPONENTS

The Mounting Tripod includes the following poles and mounting hardware.
Please make sure you have everything you need before beginning.

Poles

Tripod

Anemometer

Extension

Tube

Long

Extension

Tube

(swaged end)

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Hardware

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OOLS FOR SETUP

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Adjustable wrench

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Compass or local area map

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Drill with 3/16" or 13/64" (5 mm) bit for the 1/4" lag screws

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ONTENTS

OF

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HIS

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ANUAL

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Tripod assembly, page 3

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Mounting the tripod, page 5

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Attaching the ISS to the anemometer extension tube, page 6

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Securing the ISS on the tripod, page 7

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Attaching the sensor array on EZ-Mount and Wireless systems, page 8

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Using the anemometer extension tube on EZ-Mount and Wireless, page 9

1-1/8" Saddles
5/16" Flat Washers

5/16" x 1-1/2"

U-Bolts

5/16" Lock Washers
5/16" Hex Nuts

1/4" x 2"

Lag Screws

5/16" Bolts

Hex Nuts

Vertical Stop

Plate

Square Nuts

Foot Bracket and

1/4" Bolt

Pitch Pads

Cable Ties

Tripod Assembly Page 3

T

RIPOD

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SSEMBLY

Follow the instructions below to assemble the tripod.

1. Unfold the tripod so the two foot pads which come pre-installed on the tripod legs are
flat on the ground.

2. Thread a hex nut almost all the way onto all six of the 5/16" bolts.

3. Insert one of the 5/16" bolts into the hole in vertical stop plate.

4. Insert the 5/16" bolt with vertical stop plate into one of the holes in the tripod's lower
bracket and thread a square nut onto the end of the bolt, on the inside of the bracket.

Do not thread the square nut too far up the bolt.

5. Repeat this procedure for the remaining 5/16" bolts. Place them into the holes in both
the top and bottom tripod brackets, threading a square nut on the end of each bolt.

Do not thread the square nuts too far up the bolts.

6. Insert the long extension tube into the tripod, sliding it through the brackets.

The vertical stop plate should keep the tube from sliding all the way
through.

7. Secure the extension tube by tightening the square and hex nuts on the 5/16" bolts
until the bolts hold the tube in place securely.

5/16" Bolt

Hex Nut

Square Nut

Assemble nuts and bolts
in Tripod brackets.
Do not tighten.

Use Vertical Stop Plate
on one of the lower
bracket bolts.

Slide Long Extension Tube
through center of Tripod brackets.
Tighten nuts and bolts.

Vertical
Stop Plate

Long

Extension

Tube

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8. Attach the foot bracket to the tripod leg as shown below.

Apply pitch pads to the bottom of the foot bracket and the two foot brackets
that come pre-installed on the tripod.

Hex
Nut

Lock

Washer

1/4" Bolt

Foot Bracket

Front Leg

Pitch Pad