[amsat-bb] Remove hard stop in G5400B?

Roy Dean royldean at gmail.com
Wed Feb 13 22:30:16 UTC 2019


I now realize that the internal pot would have to be switched out (I
suspect....).  Probably not as trivial as just drilling the stop rivet out.

--Roy
K3RLD


> Has anybody considered (or actually gone through with) removing the hard
> stop in a G5400B azimuth rotator, and setting it up as a 450° rotator (or
> whatever the G5500B is)? I'm wondering if this might be a novel way of
> getting more utility out of it. I think it may even be possible in the
> Fox-Delta and G-Predict to increase these limits more. Obviously coax
> management must be considered.


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