On 7 Mar 2009 at 10:02, Edward Cole wrote:
At 05:25 AM 3/7/2009, Mark L. Hammond wrote:
Hi All,
Recently I acquired a 7.5' dish. It's aluminum with a steel ring mount. I estimate the dish weights maybe 50 lbs?
What is a realistic limit for a Yaesu G-5500 rotator? Would it handle a dish of this size/weight if carefully counterbalanced? Or is it too big and silly to even consider?
I used an azimuthal tailtwister rotor to turn various beam over a period of 20 years. He perform to his task without a glitch but after the AO-40 short session he finally gave up one motor coil burn. I am now using an Alpha Spid since that event and he's working without any problem even breaking the ice cover over the rotor this winter...
My Yaesu KR500-G elevation rotor also start to developed issues and this winter (I'm partly liable here with a faulty installation) I replace it with my former AO-40 TVRO actuator who survive an ice storm who succeed to break a reinforce 1 1/2" aluminium pole. The actuator turning bracket suffer a break metal tear apart and i have to used a full box of soldering rod to make the repair. Picture available on request.
Speaking of actuator i always struggle with the motor noise even with a .01pf capacitor to the ground this annoying noise remain. Did any one found a way to eliminate it.
P.S. I have all the dismantle tailtwister rotor parts if any one is interested?
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