Originally Posted by FBinNY

This "even tension" nonsense is what got you into trouble.

Even tension is desirable, but is not the key objective. The goal is and has always been a true wheel, properly dished. That's the ONLY real objective, and while doing so with tension as close to even as possible is nice, true trumps even tension.

If the wheel isn't too far gone, put away the tension meter, and go back and true the wheel. But try to do so with smaller adjustments spread among many spokes rather than larger adjustments of fewer spokes which leads to uneven tension.