[Elecraft] OT: How to install LED bulb in Yaesu G-800DXA

[Tom Childers, N5GE]

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 15:45:58 EST, you wrote:

>There is something else that burns up in those Yaesu analog
>rotators besides the lamps.    If you leave your rotator turned  on all the 
>time,
>you wont get much life out of either the lamps or the servo  motors.   
> 
>What I do is leave the rotator turned off unless its actually 
>being used to rotate the ant.   Which is easy to do since  the 
>on/off switch sits right next to the position buttons.   
> 
>I've never had to service the control box on the two Yaesu rotators
>in operation here.   But if you leave it turned on you certainly  will.
>Someday Yaesu might update their old line of analog rotators to the  digital
>world.  Otherwise --  they are excellent rotators and a true  value.   
> 
>Frank W7is   

[snip]

Never had a failure from my G-2800DXA which has been on for ten years.  However,
it could happen next week ;)

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