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ARCO Junior
The ARCO Junior is a modern rotator controller designed for reliable operation with virtually any rotator ever made, commercial or home brew.
ARCO Junior is a lite version of the regular ARCO. Provides same capabilities in a smaller enclosure without internal power supplies and uses simplified front panel interface instead of touch screen. Includes VNC server with the same user screen on connected computer or mobile device as the regular ARCO.
While designed to work independently, benefits from deep integration with the ARCO. When they are linked together, regular ARCO provides same great touch panel user interface for all linked ARCO Juniors, and Juniors in return expand ARCO control for multiple rotators.
Using front panel only, azimuth is controlled by Point and Shot knob or by CW and CCW buttons. Heading is always displayed on the front panel LCD display. Along with the manual control, ARCO Jr. offers rich connectivity for the computer using standard RS-232 port, USB serial port not requiring any driver installation on Windows 10, 11, macOS, and Linux, and Ethernet port to enable control over local network or the Internet.
ARCO Jr. uses external, user provided 48VDC power supply for motor driver, and external 13.8VDC supply for the logic. All rotator settings including compensation for power loss in the motor cables are menu driven over VNC, comfortably without requiring to open cover and change some internal wiring.
Built-in VNC server provides exact copy of regular ARCO screen on your computer monitor, tablet, or smartphone, enabling full control of antenna rotator and antenna switches driven by ARXC Relay modules directly from the computer or mobile device, regardless if you are connected to ARCO Jr. locally or remotely over Internet.
For unattended remote operation over the Internet, ARCO Jr. offers autonomous parking function and physically disconnects all wires coming to the rotator port from the rotator hardware when connection is over, breaks, or if
ARCO Jr. goes to the power down mode, in order to minimize possible damage by high static or nearby lightning hits during storms.
Firmware provides wide range of additional protections and self explaining error messages for quick troubleshooting if
any failure happens. All of this packed in a full aluminum, compact enclosure with always free firmware updates.