[TowerTalk] Ham IV Stuck

[Kim Elmore]

It sounds like the CW limit switch is stuck open. You can wire around 
the limit switch at the control head as a test (see the manual for which 
wires go to the limit switch and simply jumper across them.

Kim N5OP

On 12/23/2019 5:54 PM, Ron 'KF5JRA' Rosson via TowerTalk wrote:
> First of all “Merry Christmas & Happy New Year”
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> After a ton of googling I thought I would expand my issue to a stronger brain trust than Google.
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> I have a ham IV nestled in a Glen Martin Roof top tower with a 6’ mast and a K4KIO hexbeam (picture can be found here (http://www.oneinsane.org/kf5jra). When I installed it I set it up so that my offsets CW/CCW are set at 180 and true north should be my zero in the middle of the ham IV rotation.
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> Somehow I have gotten the rotor stuck/wedged at the CW 180 stop and no matter what I do it aint moving. I can hear the brake solenoid disengage/engage when I attempt to move int but get no movement. With my installation be a little over three and half years old’ could something have failed already? All meter readings are within specs so cable is good. Is it that with the cold weather ( I live in Loveland, CO (7 miles south of Fort Collins & 55 miles north of Denver)) that I should just wait till I get a decent warm spell and part that this is just a frozen due to the cold.
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> Any ideas or assistance is much appreciated.
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> 73 de KF5JRA
> Ron
> kf5jra at oneinsane dot org
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Kim Elmore, Ph.D. (Adj. Assoc. Prof., OU School of Meteorology, CCM, PP 
SEL/MEL/Glider, N5OP, 2nd Class Radiotelegraph, GROL)

/"In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. But, in 
practice, there is." //– Attributed to many people; it’s so true that it 
doesn’t matter who said it./