[TowerTalk] Sluggish Ham 4

[Wayne Kline]

 I have  boxes at the base of my towers.   I use only  6 control justion  123  and 567 on CDR, TELEX  rotors and double the extra #4 and  #7  to   #1 and  #2
to over come some IR loss     and the  Motor Starting  CAP at the base of the tower and full 1 through * up the tower to  rotor.
 
When I did not have a BOX at the bottom   I put the Cap in a junction box at the top of the tower and the  junction connection to the rotor ;
 
  Wayne  W3EA 

 
> Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 19:46:13 -0700
> To: towertalk at contesting.com
> From: w7cs at theriver.com
> Subject: [TowerTalk] Sluggish Ham 4
> 
> Ray,
> 
> The phasing capacitor, an AC one, can lose its capacity with 
> age.  Most times a sluggish rotator can be corrected with a new 
> capacitor.   An over abundance of capacitance and voltage rating, in 
> the new AC capacitor, doesn't seem to affect the rotator's new 
> performance .  You will probably have difficulty in getting the exact 
> rating and size locally.  I've even  had to mount a new larger sized 
> capacitor externally to the control box.  Fortunately its leads go 
> across two of the external interface terminals.
> 
> Chuck,  W7CS
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