I'm a HAM-M man, having three (3).
Could it be that Yaesu has a motor start capacitor problem like that which
occurs in Ham-Ms?
Lee
At 08:33 PM 1/27/02 +0000, Tom Horton wrote:
>
>Howdy,
>
> I hope someone here has experience with the little G-450XL Yaesu rotor.
>I have been having problems with mine.
>Had it down for a while and checked it out the other day and it worked
fine on
>the bench. Reinstalled it and it worked fine for a while.After several
>rotations,
>it quit again in the same manner as before. The previous problem was
>thought to be a bad cable. I repaired the cable and as I said above, the
>rotator worked.
>
> What it is doing now, as was the last time, when you press either the
>right or left direction
>switch, it sorta hangs there and then the indicator just takes off and runs
>full scale around
>the face of the dial...BUT, the rotator does not move.
>
>I really am at a loss as to what is wrong. I have spoken to some rotator
repair
>shops but no one except Yaesu works on these.
>
>If you have an idea of what the problem might be, please e-mail direct to
>k5iid@ntelos.net.
>
>A friend has a Yaesy 800 rotor, and we are wondering if his 800 controller
>would work on mine just to eliminate that part. I know they are definately
>different,but would it be a possibility to use it for troubleshooting?
>
>Thanks for listening...
>73, Tom K5IID
>
>
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