Mike,
I have a spare G-5400B controller if you want to try that. To make sure, the El works OK when wired into the AZ pins? If it still acts up, I would look at a bad motor cap, which is in the rotor. However, you can parallel a cap in the shack across pins E4 and E5. You could go to Graingers and get a motor starting/running cap, like a 2MDR1 for less than $ 10.00
I'm not sure on the difference between the 5400 and 5500, so maybe someone on this forum can tell us if this controller would work. (It has the DB-9 serial cable).
Let me know. And don't forget May 18th, for the DF Hunt!
tom bosscher k8tb
On 5/5/2010 7:36 PM, Michae J. Wolthuis wrote:
I have an ongoing problem with my Elevation rotor of my g-5500 setup. It has been in to Yaesu who said it was fine. The controller was not sent in only the actual EL hardware because when I first got it this occurred right away when I installed my new site and the AZ rotor seemed to work fine on either the AZ or the EL terminals, so Yaesu determined it must be the EL itself, it appears maybe not.