[TowerTalk] Ham 3 Rotor Wiring

[K8RI]

On 10/22/2012 2:39 AM, Jon Pearl - W4ABC wrote:
> Hi Tom.
>
> A similar question came up just a couple of weeks ago concerning T2X
> wiring.  While I had my Ham IV rotator down recently to service it, I
> didn't pay much attention to the wire colors except to note that after
> all these years, they were pretty faded.  I did a little searching on
> the web and here's what I came up with...
>
> Norm's Rotor service web site states the following:
>
> "The colors vary from manufacturer to manufacturer. But it really
> doesn't make any difference, as long as you make sure that you're
> connecting terminal 1 on the rotor to terminal 1 on the control box,
> terminal 2 to terminal 2, and so on. Also, on the HAM series and T2X
> rotors, you need to be aware that the heavy wires must go to terminals 1
> and 2. Norm uses this color code for CDE/Telex/Hy-gain rotors."

If I understood correctly, he has no terminal strip and he needs to know 
which wires go to what terminal from the inside.  I chose to use the 
pigtail instead of the terminal strip.

By far the easiest is to call Hy-Gain. They can give you and answer and 
will likely send you a wiring diagram.  I recently rebuilt a Ham IV. The 
IV and V are identical inside. Only the control box is different.
BTW I was able to purchase the bearings for less than half the price of 
the same size balls at the local hardware store.

73

Roger (K8RI)


>
> 1. black #18 gauge 2. white #18 gauge 3. green #22 gauge 4. blue #22 gauge
>
> 5. orange #22 gauge 6. yellow #22 gauge 7. brown #22 gauge 8. red #22 gauge
>
> http://www.rotorservice.com/faqs.htm#What is the color
>
>
> Ham IV manual here:
> http://www.hy-gain.com/pdffiles/HAM-IV.pdf
>
>
> CD-45II manual shows actual wire colors used in the rotator on page 14.
> They are a match to those noted in Norm's comments, above:
> http://www.bellscb.com/products/antennas/hy-gain/manuals/CD-45II.pdf
>
> Let us know if this works for you.
>
>
> 73,
>
>
> Jon Pearl - W4ABC
> www.w4abc.com
>
>
> On 10/21/2012 10:09 PM, Tom Martin wrote:
>> I am repairing a Ham 3 that has a missing terminal strip on the
>> bottom.  I can't find the wiring color codes for terminals 3-8.  I
>> have 1 and 2 working the brake OK.  I would appreciate any info on the
>> remaining wire colors to their respective terminal strip numbers.
>>
>> 73,
>>
>> Tom W8JWN
>>
>>
>
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