Yup, the larger the cap and a voltage of 100V plus will do.
Good Luck,
Lee
At 12:36 AM 1/28/02 -0000, VE6JY Don Moman wrote:
>
>A "yup" to Lee and a "nope" to Chuck....at least not this model
>
>The Yaesu model G-400 (and I suspect the 450 as well, which was the original
>subject) uses a 28 v AC motor with a 100 uf cap in the control unit.
>
>73 Don
>VE6JY
>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> > Could it be that Yaesu has a motor start capacitor problem like that
>which
>> > occurs in Ham-Ms?
>> > Lee
>>
>> Nope. Yaesu uses DC motors and simply reverses polarity to change
>direction.
>> The voltage is varied to allow speed adjustment and the controller on the
>> preset models drops the voltage to the minimum a few degrees before the
>> preset point is reached. Pretty slick. I'm betting its a cable problem.
>>
>> Chuck, N4NM
>>
>
>
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