[TowerTalk] Re: TIC Ring Potentiometer Failure?

[Michael Dinkelman <mwdink@eskimo.com>]

That's weird - mine died Sunday morning as well. Made for a lot of running
to the back door to check beam headings.

I have a replacement pot at least.

Good Luck

73
dink, n7wa





At 09:48 AM 11/28/2004, you wrote:
> Try running the rotor through it's entire rotation back and forth several
> times.  I have this problem from time to time with a 1022 as far back as
> 1996 or earlier and this works for me.
>
> 73, KB!  John K1AE
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: yccc-bounces@yccc.org [mailto:yccc-bounces@yccc.org]On Behalf Of
> Jim Idelson
> Sent: Sunday, November 28, 2004 12:25 AM
> To: TowerTalk Post; CQ-Contest Post; YCCC
> Subject: [YCCC] TIC Ring Potentiometer Failure?
>
>
> Hi all,
>
> Not far into the contest this weekend, we began to have trouble with the TIC
> 1022E [a 2003 unit]. It exhibits erratic readout and rotation behavior. The
> load is an Optibeam 4-el 40m yagi. I recently tightened the drive motor to
> eliminate slippage of the ring gear. I suspect something has happened to the
> potentiometer that feeds back rotor position back to the controller. A
> search
> of the towertalk archives shows that there have been problems like this in
> the
> past [1996/1997]. I went up the tower to have a look this afternoon, but did
> not see enything suspicious. There were no bad external wiring connections,
> etc. I sprayed the drive shaft and what looks like the position pot shaft
> with
> contact cleaner from the outside. That did nothing, but I suspect I would
> have
> to disassemble the motor to get the spray into the right places.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Jim Idelson K1IR
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