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

[Jim Cox]

same here.   Keep the rotator box on all day long and no problems after 
using at least 6  years now.   Other than the lamps in the display of 
course.
Jim K4JAF


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Tom Childers, N5GE" <n5ge at n5ge.com>
To: <elecraft at mailman.qth.net>
Sent: Saturday, February 23, 2008 7:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Elecraft] OT: How to install LED bulb in Yaesu G-800DXA


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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