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could it be that your spoke calculations were a little off and the DS spokes are too short? I put your specs in a spoke calc. and the lenghts it provided were: NDS 279mm and DS 275mm... and 3 mm are a massive difference in spoke lenght
HK_Berlin-
Nice of you to have a go at my spoke calcs! What was the calculator that you used? I used the Sapim spoke calc.
Oh I should have said it's a 2 cross wheel, but you must have already guessed that.
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could it be that your spoke calculations were a little off and the DS spokes are too short
Spoke lengths won't affect the spoke tension as long as the spokes are threaded into the nipples and haven't bottomed out.
Ndeipi
Brommers
I'm struggling with excessively imbalanced spoke tension. How imbalanced should they be for a modern rear wheel?
Rim: 24h Light Bicycle R35 (35mm carbon rim)
Hub: Bitex RAR9 rear w/ 11sp freehub
Spokes: Sapim D-Light - DS: 272mm, NDS: 278mm
Two cross
DS spoke tension: Quite high indeed, only slight movement with squeezed, average note of C above middle C when plucked
NDS spoke tension: Quite low, does move a lot when squeezed, average note of middle C
Dishing is still off, needs to go still 4mm+ towards DS.
I do feel slightly silly quoting musical spoke pitches on this thread... time to buy a spoke tension meter?