Thanks Mike....This is important information as one of my expensive DX-Engineering control boxes was made totally inoperable by ant defecation. I wanted to try and repair the relay box but DX-E said their schematic was proprietary and they would not let me see it. So I had no choice but to bridge the connection by elimination of the relay, the choke and blocking caps, diodes and run small wires directly from the new F connectors (they had been eaten away as well) to the toroids. Now these boxes are expensive enough and I know everything they put their label on is secret but would it not be nice if they printed that power off suggestion in their operation manual?
Thanks, I hope those with these boxes read your suggestion. Herb Schoenbohm, KV4FZ On 5/23/2012 3:12 PM, Mike Waters wrote: > Herb, > > Very common problem, with a simple solution. Ants are attracted to the > magnetic field around energized wires. Turn off the power to your Beverages > whenever you're not using them, and I'll bet the ants disappear. > > There ought to be one direction where no power is applied to the coax, and > the relay is not energized. In my case, it's northeast, and that's where I > park my Beverage direction control switch when I'm not using them. > > 73, Mike > www.w0btu.com > > On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:36 AM, Herb Schoenbohm<[email protected]>wrote: > >> With DC running into a remote box I always find zillions of ants with >> their unusual defection all inside >> sealed boxes. >> > _______________________________________________ > UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK _______________________________________________ UR RST IS ... ... ..9 QSB QSB - hw? BK
