Rivets are OK... problem is a bad pot that has some intermittent areas. I bought my 5400 used, and the previous owner had mounted the azimuth rotor UPSIDE DOWN (no wonder it "turned the wrong way"...) and it got a LOT of water inside. Despite my best efforts, the AZ pot has continued to go downhill ever since.
Needs a brake disc, too... ----- Original Message ----- From: "Dave Guimont" <dguim...@san.rr.com> To: <amsat-bb@amsat.org> Sent: Tuesday, June 16, 2009 10:56 PM Subject: [amsat-bb] Pots for 5400 I'm throwing this out for what it may be worth... I now have two 5500's and have had no trouble for years. Before that I had two 5400's and had trouble with both on the pots...the connections were rivets, and I opened up both and soldered the rivets, solved the problems on both... I replaced them, still working because of the over 360° rotation on the 5500's.. May be worth a shot to take a look.... _______________________________________________ Sent via amsat...@amsat.org. Opinions expressed are those of the author. Not an AMSAT-NA member? Join now to support the amateur satellite program! Subscription settings: http://amsat.org/mailman/listinfo/amsat-bb
