>I have an old 2800. I believe the gears are the same as the new
> ones. On the Prosistel site, there are pictures of Prosistel gears
> and pictures of Hygain/Yaesu gears. The Orion gears look like
> the Prosistel gears, not the Hygain/Yaesu gears. There are
> three conventional gears, with the last one driven by a worm.
The Prosistel is just a two stage worm gear drive with no conventioal gears.
> There is no brake. The main gear in the 2800 is about 3 inch
> diameter and 1 inch thick.
>
> If you want fancy ramp up/ramp down, etc, get a Green Heron
> controller for whatever rotator you choose. I'm going to just
> use an Idiom press control board with my 2800. But I only have
> a MonstIR.
>
> It is important to note that the Prosistel rotator doesn't fit
> into a tower very well. I can't use it with my HDX5106.
I had to mount the motor horizontally to get my PST-61 into the 45G. I see
the new ones have the motors mounted horizontally.
Roger Halstead (K8RI and ARRL 40 year Life Member)
N833R - World's oldest Debonair CD-2
www.rogerhalstead.com (Use return address from home page)
>
> Rick N6RK
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