[TowerTalk] Rotor Stripping Gears?

[Rick Karlquist]

ve4xt at mts.net wrote:
> This is all a very good argument for an Alfa-Spid style of controller:
> mast
> slips, adjust the controller. Period. No climbing. No pinning. No stripped
> gears.
>
> (At least until the slippage is, I think, 320 degrees, at which point you
> reach the upper limit of the box's ability to adjust.)
>
> The Spid uses pulses to tell the controller the antenna's moving, so
> there's no physical connection between the mast and any indicator
> rheostat.

Actually, there is no limit.  My SteppIR has been slipping a little
bit every week for several years.  It's probably rotated 3 or 4 full
revolutions in that time.  I just keep recalibrating the Alfa Spid
and no problem.

Rick N6RK