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- Page 1 308 Industrial Park Rd. Starkville, MS. 39759 RC1-H Controller For HAM-IV and T2X Rotators INSTRUCTION MANUAL Copyright 2015, All Rights Reserved.
- Page 2 RC1-H FEATURES • Direct replacement control box for Hy-gain HAM and T2X Series rotators. • Power requirement: 24-28 VAC at 5 amps. • Computer control with RS-232C port. • Graphic LCD screen with Large bright numbers and letters • Automatic brake control.
- Page 3 8-lug screw terminal strip. In this case you will need to make a patch cable to go from the older control box to the power input of the RC1-H. Included with the RC1-H is an 8- pin Jones plug which you can upgrade your rotator cable to the new box style. Pin 1 goes to screw terminal 1, pin 2 to terminal 2 and so on.
- Page 4 Jones plug, or your rotator pot is defective in some way. NOTE: The heart of this control is the rotator’s position pot. If it is defective, the RC1-H has no way of determining what to do. Although the left and right buttons will still move the rotor, none of the automatic features will work, as all automatic features depend on the rotator’s position potentiometer.
- Page 5 To calibrate your RC1-H, first go into the Defaults menu and wipe out any and all modifications you have already entered. If you desire to recalibrate your rotator, the RC1-H does this by the start and end of the potentiometer, or LEFT stop SOUTH and RIGHT stop. Depending on the model, RIGHT stop can be 180 for HyGain models.
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Page 6: Contrast Level
Sleep Timer The RC1-H has a default sleep timer of 10 minutes. At this time, with no button or RS- 232 activity, the RC1-H will go into a low power mode, clear the screen and shut off the LCD back light. -
Page 7: Brake Delay
Coast Setting The RC1-H has the ability to add an antenna Coast setting. This setting is in degrees (up to 10) that will disengage the motor a few degrees early to allow your heading to be a little more accurate when the antenna comes to a stop. Users, make sure your brake delay is longer than it takes for the antenna to coast. -
Page 8: Flash Upgrade
The RC1-H is capable of field program upgrade via its Serial port input. You may have noticed that the RC1-H seems to have a slight delay during power up. It is during this time that the built-in bootloader program is active, looking for the proper command sequence to begin a flash upgrade of the internal program memory. -
Page 9: Error Messages
“;” which means stop the rotor NOTE: Some programs do not use the full DCU-1 protocol. There are some programs which expect the rotor to turn by ONLY sending the AP1xxx command. The RC1-H needs both the AP1 and the AM1 commands to begin movement. - Page 10 In this case, take the new Jones plug supplied with your RC1-H and your included power cord, and connect the cord to pins 1 and 2. Pin 1 should go to the barrel side of the coax plug and pin 2 to the tip.
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Page 11: Theory Of Operation
The pot reading is the heart of the RC1-H control. So, if your rotor pot is bad in same way, then basically the RC1-H will be lost and will not know what to do. Thus none of the automatic features will function. - Page 12 Warrants to the original owner of this product, if manufactured by hy-gain and purchased from an authorized dealer or directly from hy-gain to be free from defects in material and workmanship for a period of 12 months for rotator products and 24 months for antenna products from date of purchase provided the following terms of this warranty are satisfied.
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