Get up their and make sure the bolts are all tight. Mabe it will make the noise while your up their Ron / N6DCN _______________________________________________ _______________________________________
Ron, Ive been on the tower several times (see link below). Tower / rotator bolts are tight. The noise seems to be coming directly from the rotator itself and some say it's normal, others say it's not
I've not seen any rotators using planetary gear trains that offered much resistance to rotation. IOW you can probably turn most any of them by hand when the wedge is disengaged, which is the reason I
Thanks for the reply Ron. I understand that Yaesu uses gear reduction as the braking system instead of a wedge. If that's the case, it could be that the noise is being cause by wear on the gears. Don
Hi Tony, We emailed back and forth. I really would not worry at this stage, mine creaks and so does my friend's across town. I have never had or know anyone that has had a unit like ours free wheel.
There are planetary gear systems and then there are planetary gear systems. Granted that probably there are present day boxes that you can turn by hand, but thern I believe that technically speaking
I should have rephrased that as I meant spur gears such as are used in most rotators like the Ham M family, rather than planetary. OTOH it still takes a very high gear ratio in a planetary to provide