Originally Posted by
Retro Grouch
The trick to a bicycle wheel isn't to eliminate wobble from the rim, it's to have all of the spokes as evenly tensioned as possible.
This. The range of tension is quite wide and within that range it doesn't make difference to the strenght of the wheel or chance of spoke breaking, but the difference in tension between spokes should be really small. Also it should be a snug fit into the hub.