I had no problem changing out the wheat lamp in my 800DXA with another one
rated the same. The only downside is the reflective tape Yaesu used to even
out the dial illumination gets easily damaged.
Best Regards,
Jim N9WW
James Chaggaris
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St. Charles, IL 60174
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-----Original Message-----
From: towertalk-bounces@contesting.com
[mailto:towertalk-bounces@contesting.com] On Behalf Of K0DAN
Sent: Friday, November 11, 2011 10:46 AM
To: jim@audiosystemsgroup.com; towertalk@contesting.com;
mryan001@tampabay.rr.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Yaesu Rotors
The Yaesu controllers are EXTREMELY un-user-friendly and very hard to take
apart and service and also difficult to avoid causing collateral damage.
Jim's suggestion to avoid digging in there is wise...either live with the
dark controller, or if you must have it lit, then add some LED's in the
least-intrusive way possible. Those controllers are a nightmare!
73
k0dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Brown
Sent: November 11, 2011 10:19 AM
To: towertalk@contesting.com
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Yaesu Rotors
On 11/11/2011 8:02 AM, Mike Ryan wrote:
> I hope someone can help here. Has anyone replaced the lamps in the CONTROL
> box that illuminate the meter face? If so what did you use, where did you
> get the lamps? I suppose Radio Shack has something that might work..not
> worried about an exact replacement. Just want to light it up as the bulbs
> have gone out.
I encountered that problem a year or two ago -- the bulbs in my Yaesu
controller burned out after only about six months, clearly a design
failure. It looked to be quite difficult to replace them, and also to
find replacements, so I improvised the installation of a couple of white
LEDs alongside the right side of the display, poked around the schematic
to find V+, and connected the LEDs to V+ through suitable dropping
resistors to limit the current. Two years later, they're working fine.
although the original bulbs illuminated the face more uniformly.
73, Jim K9YC
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