Pneumatic Telescopic Masts: What They Do and How to Choose the Right One

Pneumatic Telescopic Masts: What They Do and How to Choose the Right One A pneumatic telescopic mast solves a specific problem. You need an antenna, a camera, or a light lifted up high, and you need it up right now. No tower exists on site, and there's no time to build one. That is the entire job. The people depending on these masts feel that pressure directly. A comms team setting up in the field, a survey crew, a broadcaster, or an emergency unit must get a payload aloft before anything else can even start. So if a mast is on your shopping list, this walks through how they work. It explains what the numbers on the datasheet really mean when you're actually standing one up. And it covers what to check before you pick a manufacturer. How a pneumatic mast gets its height Consider a bicycle pump, and operate it in reverse. The mast is a stack of tubes of aluminium inside each other. Send air up the bottom and it pushes the tube up out of the tube below, along with whatever you...