[amsat-bb] Elevation meter Rotor YAESU G-5500 stopped working

[Charles Reiche]

Swap cables and see if the problem follows the cable(rotor) or always stays
on the EL meter. That should divide the problem in half first.

Charles Reiche

On Tue, Jul 18, 2017 at 5:56 PM, Albert van Deursen <avdeur at home.nl> wrote:

> Hi all,
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> All of a sudden the elevation meter stopped working of my Yaesu G-5500
> rotor
> controller unit .
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> No issue with the AZ meter. Rotor itself keeps on steering / working
> without any problem in EL &AZ (via interface EA4TX ARS-USB) so all still
> working fine (fortunately !)  for satellite work.
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> Looks like a component failure in the controller unit  or the meter itself
> ?
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> A physical check (opening the controller unit) didn't show any anomaly.
> Being a not too tech ham was wondering if any of you Yaesu rotor users had
> seen this problem before / around ?
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> Possibly anyone to hint/ indicate at a quick check in the schematic wire
> diagram to where to start looking for this failure ?
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> Thanks beforehand for yr appreciated advice
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> 73
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> Albert
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> PD0OXW
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