[Boatanchors] start capacitor

[D C _Mac_ Macdonald]

I note that Kenneth was referring to AT the rotor 
and not IN the rotor! If I recall, he stated that the 
capacitor is effectively across pins 4 and 8 of the 
rotor. He said It enabled feeding the rotor with 
the seven-conductor cable that he had available 
in lieu of buying new eight-wire cable. 
 
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Date: Fri, 3 May 2013 12:45:32 -0700
From: gzook at yahoo.com
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] start capacitor
To: grimm at sbc.edu
CC: k2gkk at hotmail.com; manualman at juno.com; boatanchors at mailman.qth.net





Since starting capacitors usually go bad long before the rotor, I definitely do NOT recommend putting the capacitor inside the rotor!  That is, unless one really enjoys climbing the tower, removing the rotor, climbing back down, disassembling the rotor, replacing the capacitor, reassembling the rotor, climbing back up the tower, replacing the rotor, and finally climbing back down!


Doing such is a LOT more work then having more wires in the control cable.

 
Glen, K9STH


Website: http://k9sth.com





From: Kenneth Grimm <grimm at sbc.edu>
To: Glen Zook <gzook at yahoo.com> 
Cc: D C _Mac_ Macdonald <k2gkk at hotmail.com>; "WA2CWA, Pete Markavage" <manualman at juno.com>; "boatanchors at mailman.qth.net" <boatanchors at mailman.qth.net> 
Sent: Friday, May 3, 2013 12:11 PM
Subject: Re: [Boatanchors] start capacitor



Since this is a sealed capacitor, it would be a good candidate for mounting at the rotor instead of in the control box...thereby reducing the number of wires needed in the control cable.