Try loosening and retightening the meter termal nuts. They bind the meter
terminals to the printed circuit board. These have a habit of becoming
tarnished and opening the meter connection.
Jon Ogden wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am making an effort to get my satellite station back on the air after it
> was taken down by a windstorm last spring.
>
> I am going to use a Yaesu G-500A elevation rotor on the new setup. I bought
> this at Dayton a couple years ago, but have never used it. The rotor and
> control box have worked in the past.
>
> Today I hooked things up to test them out again. This time though, the
> rotor turns, but I get no deflection on the meter on the control box. In
> other words, I would not be able to tell what my elevation angle is. The
> only deflection I get is when I hit one of the stops, the needle on the
> meter swings completely from one side to the other.
>
> I know little about the inner workings of rotors and I have no manual for
> this beast. Looking in the control box, it appears that wires 1 and 2 are
> the only ones used for anything other than motor control. These lines run
> to the meter circuitry.
>
> Can anyone give me an idea here of what is wrong? Is there some part inside
> the rotor itself that may have gone bad? Again, this worked fine about a
> year and a half ago. It's just been sitting in my closet.
>
> Thanks es 73,
>
> Jon
> NA9D
>
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> Jon Ogden
> NA9D (ex: KE9NA)
>
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>
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>
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