ME!!!!!!
Uggh! No it cant be the wiring he said.. Absolutely not! No way in HE double hockey sticks. It had to be the ASC1... (Famous last words)
So a round of ovation while I accept this award, and now I go on to my acceptance speech!
I have to thank Brian over at Titanium Satellite for his support. He stood by his product and as I have said in the past it is built like a tank. He was kind enough to send me another unit to test out here with the installation issues that I had. His support was not only awesome, but he went well above and beyond as well as the entire team over at Titanium satellite and KE4EST's explanation. Kudo's to everyone over there and I owe all of you a beer at least!
So after a bit of a delay due to the holiday, I was able to get the correct wiring for my dish. I originally ran electrical wire (8 strand) that I bought from ACE and a cheap Chinese servo motor.
My issue was two fold. The servo would lose count during a move causing it to mis-align with the LNB and hit the hard limits. So when the servo was at say -75 as the ASC reported, it was really -90 at the LNB. This was fixed by buying a Chaparral motor. (Moral of the story, don't go cheap.)
The other issue was when the motor was moved the 5volt on the servo would command the LNB to move. It was kind of weird. as you moved the dish east it moved clockwise and as you moved the dish west, it moved counter clockwise into the LNB limits.
After about a month of solid troubleshooting, Brian came to the conclusion (where I didn't) that it had to be the wiring. Well, he was dead on! What happened is as the dish was moved the current from the actuator was causing a bleed over of noise on the servo causing it to move when ever the dish was moved.
So this weekend I was able to get the wiring in place and wired and would you know it. Everything worked and not only did it work. It worked correctly! The great thing about this is sense I ordered the ribbon cable, I now have to extra runs to the dish if needed. The ribbon cable is of the following for anyone who may need some in the future is one run of 3 wires shielded for servo (Ground, 5volt, pulse) and 4 wire shielded for the motor (M1,M2, S1 and S2) with ground. and two runs of RG6.
I am happy now that I can move my dish without any issues. Brian, I will be sending the loaner unit back to you this week. With that said, I am now going to pull my head out of my rear end and insert foot into mouth!
That's all!
Uggh! No it cant be the wiring he said.. Absolutely not! No way in HE double hockey sticks. It had to be the ASC1... (Famous last words)
So a round of ovation while I accept this award, and now I go on to my acceptance speech!
I have to thank Brian over at Titanium Satellite for his support. He stood by his product and as I have said in the past it is built like a tank. He was kind enough to send me another unit to test out here with the installation issues that I had. His support was not only awesome, but he went well above and beyond as well as the entire team over at Titanium satellite and KE4EST's explanation. Kudo's to everyone over there and I owe all of you a beer at least!
So after a bit of a delay due to the holiday, I was able to get the correct wiring for my dish. I originally ran electrical wire (8 strand) that I bought from ACE and a cheap Chinese servo motor.
My issue was two fold. The servo would lose count during a move causing it to mis-align with the LNB and hit the hard limits. So when the servo was at say -75 as the ASC reported, it was really -90 at the LNB. This was fixed by buying a Chaparral motor. (Moral of the story, don't go cheap.)
The other issue was when the motor was moved the 5volt on the servo would command the LNB to move. It was kind of weird. as you moved the dish east it moved clockwise and as you moved the dish west, it moved counter clockwise into the LNB limits.
After about a month of solid troubleshooting, Brian came to the conclusion (where I didn't) that it had to be the wiring. Well, he was dead on! What happened is as the dish was moved the current from the actuator was causing a bleed over of noise on the servo causing it to move when ever the dish was moved.
So this weekend I was able to get the wiring in place and wired and would you know it. Everything worked and not only did it work. It worked correctly! The great thing about this is sense I ordered the ribbon cable, I now have to extra runs to the dish if needed. The ribbon cable is of the following for anyone who may need some in the future is one run of 3 wires shielded for servo (Ground, 5volt, pulse) and 4 wire shielded for the motor (M1,M2, S1 and S2) with ground. and two runs of RG6.
I am happy now that I can move my dish without any issues. Brian, I will be sending the loaner unit back to you this week. With that said, I am now going to pull my head out of my rear end and insert foot into mouth!
That's all!
