[amsat-bb] AlphaSpid Green Heron rotor controller PstRotator

[Jeff]

Over the last year I have evolved to a completely new AZ/EL rotor control
setup, an AlphaSpid AZ/EL rotor  system, a Green Heron R-21 controller,
controlled by SatPC32 and PStRotortator. In the last few weeks my neighbors
have mentioned that my rotor is "beeping'. As it is just 15 feet from their
lunai  that they sit in at night I'm a little concerned that their comments
are going to get more unfriendly. As I have recently lost a good part of my
high frequency hearing I can't hear the tone. I have had to stop collecting
Telemetry at night to try to alleviate the situation. Does anyone have a
clue on  why the rotor system would beep? Does anyone have a clue on how to
stop this from happening? My only input on this as I can't hear the beep,
but I'm now feeding more voltage to the rotor system then before when I was
using the stock controller supplied by AlphaSpid. The higher voltage allows
the rotor to turn at a much improved rate. If I knew I was going to have to
put up with all this BS I would of just bought another 5500 at half the
price. 

 

73 Jeff kb2m