[TowerTalk] Tailtwister not turning

[Dennis Vernacchia]

Tailtwisters have a long known problem of getting "locked up" if you ran the
rotator against either CW or CCW stop ( end of rotation ).

In some instances you can "rock" the CW and CCW levers back and forth to get
it to unstick itself.

Idoom Press sells a neat accessory board for your control box that does an
automatic wiggle when you first try to turn
it when you are within 5 or 10 degrees of the stop. and lets use use the
Calibration Pot to dial in exact
direction you want rotator to coast to hands Fee" with Delayed brake
release.

Hopefully someone else can tell you other methods to "Unstick" the Tail
Twister.

P.S. - If anyone has a Tailtwister laying around collecting dust and wants
to sell it, please let me know.

73, Dennis N6KI



On Sat, Feb 7, 2009 at 9:14 AM, <al_n6ta at comcast.net> wrote:

> Finally my turn again.
> T2X will not rotate, all of a sudden.   Brake sounds like it releases with
> the loud 'clank'.  Diretcion meter will not move from its last indication,
> at JA.  Voltages and resistances checked per the manual and are in
> tolerance.   Archives suggests changing the AC capacitor.  Got one PDQ from
> C.A.T.S. but no improvement.  Meter not moving means no mast movement but I
> can see that myself!  Is there some kind of internal problem that would
> allow all the electrical tests to be FB but no mechanical movement?
>
> I can get it down but that is less than fun.
>
> Tnx!
> Al
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