When setting the AZ and EL full scale adjustment on the back of my G-5500, I accidentally disturbed the other pots labeled "Out Voltage Adj". The instruction manual doesn't mention these pots and the schematic looks like they set the voltage for the DIN connector feeding my LVB tracker. Looking for advice on how to (re)set these pots correctly.
Thanks in advance.
Darrell W4CX
Darrell, you can either recalibrate the LVB to the new settings or manually move the rotor to 360 or 450 AZ and 90 or 180 EL and adjust the pots until the LVB shows the same reading, if you moved the pots a bunch I suspect that telling the LVB to go to a point does not match the meters anymore.
Kevin wa6fwf
On 4/5/2015 3:42 PM, W4CX wrote:
When setting the AZ and EL full scale adjustment on the back of my G-5500, I accidentally disturbed the other pots labeled "Out Voltage Adj". The instruction manual doesn't mention these pots and the schematic looks like they set the voltage for the DIN connector feeding my LVB tracker. Looking for advice on how to (re)set these pots correctly.
Thanks in advance.
Darrell W4CX
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Darrell, you can either recalibrate the LVB to the new settings or manually move the rotor to 360 or 450 AZ and 90 or 180 EL and adjust the pots until the LVB shows the same reading, if you moved the pots a bunch I suspect that telling the LVB to go to a point does not match the meters anymore.
Kevin wa6fwf
On 4/5/2015 3:42 PM, W4CX wrote:
When setting the AZ and EL full scale adjustment on the back of my G-5500, I accidentally disturbed the other pots labeled "Out Voltage Adj". The instruction manual doesn't mention these pots and the schematic looks like they set the voltage for the DIN connector feeding my LVB tracker. Looking for advice on how to (re)set these pots correctly.
Thanks in advance.
Darrell W4CX
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Thanks Kevin. Got the AZ workin again, but EL is not moving manually at all. Looks to be abt 10deg. Waiting for morning light and hoping I didn't somehow mess up the rotor. Thanks for your advice. Darrell w4cx
On Apr 5, 2015, at 8:27 PM, Kevin Schuchmann WA6FWF@comcast.net wrote:
Darrell, you can either recalibrate the LVB to the new settings or manually move the rotor to 360 or 450 AZ and 90 or 180 EL and adjust the pots until the LVB shows the same reading, if you moved the pots a bunch I suspect that telling the LVB to go to a point does not match the meters anymore.
Kevin wa6fwf
On 4/5/2015 3:42 PM, W4CX wrote: When setting the AZ and EL full scale adjustment on the back of my G-5500, I accidentally disturbed the other pots labeled "Out Voltage Adj". The instruction manual doesn't mention these pots and the schematic looks like they set the voltage for the DIN connector feeding my LVB tracker. Looking for advice on how to (re)set these pots correctly.
Thanks in advance.
Darrell W4CX
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