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Re: [TowerTalk] Ham 3 Rotor Wiring

To: Tom Martin <tmartin@chartermi.net>
Subject: Re: [TowerTalk] Ham 3 Rotor Wiring
From: Jon Pearl - W4ABC <jonpearl@tampabay.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2012 23:39:55 -0700
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Hi Tom.

A similar question came up just a couple of weeks ago concerning T2X wiring. While I had my Ham IV rotator down recently to service it, I didn't pay much attention to the wire colors except to note that after all these years, they were pretty faded. I did a little searching on the web and here's what I came up with...

Norm's Rotor service web site states the following:

"The colors vary from manufacturer to manufacturer. But it really doesn't make any difference, as long as you make sure that you're connecting terminal 1 on the rotor to terminal 1 on the control box, terminal 2 to terminal 2, and so on. Also, on the HAM series and T2X rotors, you need to be aware that the heavy wires must go to terminals 1 and 2. Norm uses this color code for CDE/Telex/Hy-gain rotors."

1. black #18 gauge 2. white #18 gauge 3. green #22 gauge 4. blue #22 gauge

5. orange #22 gauge 6. yellow #22 gauge 7. brown #22 gauge 8. red #22 gauge

http://www.rotorservice.com/faqs.htm#What is the color


Ham IV manual here:
http://www.hy-gain.com/pdffiles/HAM-IV.pdf


CD-45II manual shows actual wire colors used in the rotator on page 14. They are a match to those noted in Norm's comments, above:
http://www.bellscb.com/products/antennas/hy-gain/manuals/CD-45II.pdf

Let us know if this works for you.


73,


Jon Pearl - W4ABC
www.w4abc.com


On 10/21/2012 10:09 PM, Tom Martin wrote:
I am repairing a Ham 3 that has a missing terminal strip on the bottom.  I 
can't find the wiring color codes for terminals 3-8.  I have 1 and 2 working 
the brake OK.  I would appreciate any info on the remaining wire colors to 
their respective terminal strip numbers.

73,

Tom W8JWN



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