I just put a brand new G-1000DXA on-line and am so mad at myself for letting
the manager at HRO talk me into this thing and not the tail-twister I was
going to get. He said it was higher rated for wind load etc but my gosh, I
put the two side-by-side and it looks like a toy compared to the TT. Mine
acts very weird. I push a direction button and the needle will drift 30-40
degrees to some other value before it stops and before I actually hold down
the button to make it move. All it takes is a momentary tap. I still don't
know if it is moving outside when this happens or not. It's real scary if
it is cause it's really moving fast on the display. Then, I will park it in
one direction, come back next day the display will show ok until again I tap
the left/right direction switch. Anyway, very un happy with this thing,
wish I had never bought it. BTW, this one uses 6 wires.
73, Gedas
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----- Original Message -----
From: "NØATH" <N0ATH@Charter.net>
To: <jwagner@dxengineering.com>; <towertalk@contesting.com>
Sent: Friday, October 21, 2005 10:30 PM
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] FW: Yaesu rotator problem
I have a similar problem with a Yaesu G800SA - It has connections for only 4
wires on the rear of the control box.
I have no manual and I have yet been able to make it work and track
correctly. I picked this one up 2nd hand although it
looks new. I have not been able to find the resident expert on these rotors.
I have a ninety footer going up soon with a
6 element vertical for 52.525 and a six element horz. for down around
50.100. Sure wish I could get this thing going
before cold weather hits western Missouri.
NØATH / Dave
>
>
> Steve wrote:
>
> > Howdy, TowerTalkians --
> >
> > I ran into a problem that's got me stumped. I've got a
> > Yaesu G-800
> > rotator that doesn't seem to work. It was not tested prior to
> > installation on the
> > tower but I haven't ever had any infant mortality problems
> > with Yaesus so maybe
> > it's something on our end.
> >
> > I think I remember that Yaesu rotators changed voltage
> > systems recently -
> > they went from ac to dc or vice versa - I don't remember
> > which, but the
> > result is that instead of using 6 wires, now they only use 4.
> > Which is fine except
> > they don't tell you that in the instruction manual so you
> > wind up soldering 4
> > extra wires (2 on each end) that aren't needed. And they're
> > not the easiest
> > buggers to work with in the first place. :-(
> >
> > Anyway, we got the 4 wires hooked up and it doesn't work
> > - no rotation,
> > no indication, etc. We've got power and had to replace the
> > little internal 3A
> > fuse but as Mark would say, no worky worky. We couldn't find
> > any pin-out
> > measurements like you find with Hy-Gain rotors so we couldn't
> > do any measurements.
> > Can anyone give us any simple measurements/tests we can do?
> > We haven't run a
> > cable continuity check but I haven't had that sort of problem
> > before but I'm not
> > ruling anything out.
> >
> > Any help appreciated.
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Steve K7LXC
> > TOWER TECH
>
> The Yaesu rotators have been 20 Vdc for as long as I've had
> mine 5+ years. They call for 5 connections..I've never second
> guessed them, like you, I just hooked them up and away they went.
>
> Here's the manual if you need one..has the schematic in the back.
>
> 73 John W8JJW
>
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