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<blockquote data-quote="Frank Koenig" data-source="post: 63757" data-attributes="member: 416">Re: Bigger Speakers on Bigger Sticks? (rambling)Douglas,Thanks for the reply, encouragement, and for supplying the picture that better explains what I&#039;m trying to do. Always nice to know that there is at least one other person as crazy as I am <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />~<img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":-)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />~:smile:On load capacity, the Applied L-16m is rated at 500 lbs so I figure a couple of ~120 lb speakers ought to be pretty comfy.Stability is another, more general, question. At the risk of going into rigger territory, does anyone have any general guidelines for height to base ratio for this sort of structure? I know that building codes generally like 2:1 for unbraced structures as water tanks, but that assumes a uniform vertical mass distributiuon. A top-heavy speaker on a stick should use a more conservative criterion. And outdoors wind loading matters. Guess I shouldn&#039;t have gone there 8O~8-O~:shock:--Frank</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Frank Koenig, post: 63757, member: 416"] Re: Bigger Speakers on Bigger Sticks? (rambling) Douglas, Thanks for the reply, encouragement, and for supplying the picture that better explains what I'm trying to do. Always nice to know that there is at least one other person as crazy as I am :)~:-)~:smile: On load capacity, the Applied L-16m is rated at 500 lbs so I figure a couple of ~120 lb speakers ought to be pretty comfy. Stability is another, more general, question. At the risk of going into rigger territory, does anyone have any general guidelines for height to base ratio for this sort of structure? I know that building codes generally like 2:1 for unbraced structures as water tanks, but that assumes a uniform vertical mass distributiuon. A top-heavy speaker on a stick should use a more conservative criterion. And outdoors wind loading matters. Guess I shouldn't have gone there 8O~8-O~:shock: --Frank [/QUOTE]

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