I'm throwing this out for what it may be worth...
I now have two 5500's and have had no trouble for years.
Before that I had two 5400's and had trouble with both on the pots...the connections were rivets, and I opened up both and soldered the rivets, solved the problems on both...
I replaced them, still working because of the over 360° rotation on the 5500's..
May be worth a shot to take a look....
73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1@san.rr.com
Disagree: I learn....
Pulling for P3E...
I did the same on mine when I had the original problem, but decided on replacing the pots and bought about 10 of them to have spares. That was some time ago and they still work. My problem now is with the elevation rotator itself having a problem, but believe I now have that solved as well.
Regards, Reid, W4UPD
Dave Guimont wrote:
I'm throwing this out for what it may be worth...
I now have two 5500's and have had no trouble for years.
Before that I had two 5400's and had trouble with both on the pots...the connections were rivets, and I opened up both and soldered the rivets, solved the problems on both...
I replaced them, still working because of the over 360° rotation on the 5500's..
May be worth a shot to take a look....
73, Dave, WB6LLO dguimon1@san.rr.com Disagree: I learn.... Pulling for P3E...
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Rivets are OK... problem is a bad pot that has some intermittent areas.
I bought my 5400 used, and the previous owner had mounted the azimuth rotor UPSIDE DOWN (no wonder it "turned the wrong way"...) and it got a LOT of water inside. Despite my best efforts, the AZ pot has continued to go downhill ever since.
Needs a brake disc, too...
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Guimont" dguimon1@san.rr.com To: amsat-bb@amsat.org Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:56 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Pots for 5400
I'm throwing this out for what it may be worth...
I now have two 5500's and have had no trouble for years.
Before that I had two 5400's and had trouble with both on the pots...the connections were rivets, and I opened up both and soldered the rivets, solved the problems on both...
I replaced them, still working because of the over 360° rotation on the 5500's..
May be worth a shot to take a look....
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