[TowerTalk] Tailtwister bulb

[Donn Drury]

On the subject of rotor meter bulbs.
I have a 3 year old Ham IV rotor with the newer Controller PLUS
which uses two leds in the bottom of the meter. Mine are burned out
or not working. I have tried and tried to find a schematic for the Controller PLUS
with no luck. There are two leds in series that measure 24V AC across them.

I did locate a Hy-Gain Replacement Parts list from MFJ that calls these bulbs
“Incandescent light bulbs, 28v, for “PLUS” controller”. $1.95 each

Are these LEDS or Incandescent? Surely I am not the first person to have these 
meter lights go out on a Ham IV PLUS Controller.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Donn W0TK

> On Oct 23, 2014, at 11:18 AM, Gary Smith <Gary at ka1j.com> wrote:
> 
> I ordered a LED kit from Idiom Press to 
> replace the burned out 1819 bulb in my 
> tailtwister controller but Idiom stuck me 
> & kept the money, sent nothing, won't 
> return emails and the phone isn't 
> answered, and there's a default message 
> saying the user has not set up the 
> mailbox.
> 
> So I'm looking for a better alternative to 
> the 1819 bulb & if there's a known better 
> LED alternative, does anyone have a source 
> or link they can share.
> 
> Also, I saw Idiom has a digital mod to the 
> Tailtwister but after this experience I'm 
> not sending anything to them again. Is 
> there an aftermarket rotor that has a 
> manual digital input of some kind? I don't 
> want to have the rotor aim every time I 
> enter a call into my logging program.
> 
> 73,
> 
> Gary
> KA1J
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