[BC] Nautel V1

[Tom Taggart]

Clay:

Probably Nautel finally sent a field engineer out to look at one of these things--who undoubtedly had some choice words for the design team when he returned.

Had the inspiration (well, it's a weekend, so the brain was on idle) to simply short the "on" connection on the remote control in. Then if all that is going on is a dirty/flaky "off" push button the transmitter will stay on.

Manual says #36 on a 37 pin male "D" is remote "on" (presumably a momentary connection to ground, although they don't say that) while pin #37 is remote "off."

Nope.  Make my jumper up on the female "D"--pin #36 to ground at pin#10. Plug it in.  Transmitter goes off.  Switched the jumper to pin #37--at least the transmitter stays on. Presumably that is the "real" remote on connection.

I will have to assume the manual was written by some software engineer who has a different understanding of "off" and "on" then us normal folks. Doubt that even a bad translation from French would come up with this result.