On Sun, 16 Nov 2003 21:12:35 +0100, "Géry Duyck"
wrote:

|What's the easiest way to attach a variable resistor
|to your rotor, or outside tube, for an elevation motor?
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|Does anyone have experience with this ?

Yes.

The way I did it was to mount the body of the pot to the horizontal
tube and install a weight on the shaft. Gravity will keep the weight
pointed at the center of the Earth thus holding the shaft in a fixed
position while the body of the pot rotates around it.

Weatherproof as necessary.

Wes N7WS
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|All tips / info / foto's are welcome !
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|73's
|ON4GDK, Gery D.
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