[TowerTalk] Big Rak and HDX-555 orion2800

[bill steffey]

a few months after initial install gunk started to grow inside the 
nice gold pinned neutrik connector up at the rotor. The gunk 
conducted the pulses for the motor into the sense line returning the 
motor turns, totally messing up the positioner's readout ... after a 
few months of that I cut off the connector and used what M2 is using 
now, a simple euro electrical binding post.( without the box).
Eventually , at the bottom of the tower, I even broke out the motor 
lines seperate from the pulse liners back to the shack. Never again 
a  problem...later went with a RT-21 green heron.  ..

Also my sommer beam etc caused too much slip for me , so I went with 
the Chamnpion assembly. The design of that has changed dramatically 
since mine was purchased years ago. Now I know where it is pointed.

bill /3