How can I cut down or eliminate wind noise? Ours is hung under the railing of our outdoor deck to cut down exposure to wet weather but still get wind
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You can put a small cardboard/plastic wind barrier up against the side that is receiving the wind. I tucked my MICs into the cable feed hole, which housed the balun connector for my camera. The hole was then covered with a painted face plate. The MIC is very sensitive.
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The typical answer is to put on a baffle or screen of foam; like those you see on announcer mics on TV at outdoor events. You could use a bit of packing foam to do the job, or even a layer of cloth. This will reduce the rumble from wind. Secure with a tie wrap or wire tie.
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There are hook attachments that hold the cover down at the corners. I used these to attach each corner to the deck using a 2" or 3" screw and had no problem with wind. If you put each screw through a washer, the screw will not slip through the hole in the loop in the hook attachment.
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I live in Florida near the beach and have a lot of wind. I have not screwed the unit down yet but it does make a little noise and move around a little on really windy days. I would say to just try it for a while it may depend on location. the top does a good job letting the wind through.
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Hi Mahem: I used a shade sail at a corner in fence , artaching one sail end to each fence. The third sail end attached to a support beam for upstairs deck behind my home, rhis third end is higher than other 2 works beautifully hope this helps. Jackie
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I have mine hanging in air since Sept 2013. Seems to be holding up fine. We are in a high sun, high wind area and I have had no problems. My suggestion is you also buy some type of lightning strike protection, just in case.
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Hi we live in Portland Tx, Spring and Summer can be very windy here, 3 corners are anchored to the house and one on Post cemented and then anchor to a tree otherwise the post will bend, hardware used ( steel cable, turnbuckles, anchor mounts) bought at lowes... Haven"t had any issues so far, great shade cover.
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The rails are about 3.5" off the roof at the brackets. They do create some wind noise, probably depending on the shape of the roof.
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My installation is on an outside wall under a covered porch. There is plenty of volume. I get quite a bit of wind noise but have never tested the audio quality.
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We have ours hanging over our deck. It is woven material that does have gaps between the 'threads'. However, it doesn't necessarily fall uniformly through the cracks, ours tends to primarily pool in the middle and then drip through there. We have it mounted level at the 4 corners. I suspect that if we mounted at an angle that most of the rain would shed off the edge.
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There are tie downs but it slopes and may not have enough square footage inside to work for your deck. Also I'm not sure how it would hold up to being in sun and all weather conditions day after day. We only use it when we're camping and thus far (4 camping trips all of them having rain and wind) it has held up well.
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I had mine mounted outside and found the wind would blow it out. I mounted it inside under my kitchen sink and it works flawlessly.
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Hi Joan, The fence seems to block the wind just fine. I live in Baltimore, it may be a little more windy where you live though. Good Luck, Patty
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We have our gazebo on the rooftop deck in Chicago (think windy city), while it is vented very well, in high winds it did start to shake and move, so we ended up screwing it to the deck and filling the hollow columns with sand (about 1 80lbs bag per column), the combination of the sand and the screws makes it rock solid. In the winter we take the canvas down so not to get snow build-up. If your not in as windy a place, you might just try the sand trick.
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Strongly suggest you did what we did...get some short rebar rods and pound them in along-side the legs. Then tether them to the legs with cable ties. No chance of winds blowing it over now.
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Hi there. Use a screw on the inside of the underneath deck, use stainless steel screw and any other hardware you need to fix, just make certain that it is stainless (no Rust)
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I've used it outdoors, but it's very sensitive to wind. Keep away from trees, and not over pavement. Training kit recommended.
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If you don't have any way to vent outside like windows or something, you might be able to build a water filter to clear the exhaust. It wouldn't be too hard and would only require some engineering and pvc.