Hey folks,
So, my ku-band dish is having trouble moving west. From the receiver on the way to the dish, the cable runs through a 22kHz switch and a little bit of flattened coax so that it can exit the window while the window remains closed. This was never a problem until recently and I assumed the motor was just getting old.
Sometimes it helped to switch to a horizontally polarized channel to drive the dish - the voltage is higher, right?
Today I decided to see if I could move it and came across something interesting. When I told the dish to go to reference, it scooted west with no problem. Once there, as I clicked through satellites, it moved east with no problem. But if I wanted to return to a satellite I had passed, it refused to move west. In the satellite setup menu, hitting west resulted in no movement .... but telling it to return to zero sent it off west again.
I had assumed it was perhaps low current or a problem with the motor, but now I'm wondering if something else might be to blame. Is there anything fundamentally different about the signal it gets to return to reference versus move to a satellite? Why would it move for one and not the other?
Receiver is a MicroHD, motor is an SG6100. It's set to move with USALS and I've doubled checked by location is correct in the USALS menu. Dish limits are also set to off.
So, my ku-band dish is having trouble moving west. From the receiver on the way to the dish, the cable runs through a 22kHz switch and a little bit of flattened coax so that it can exit the window while the window remains closed. This was never a problem until recently and I assumed the motor was just getting old.
Sometimes it helped to switch to a horizontally polarized channel to drive the dish - the voltage is higher, right?
Today I decided to see if I could move it and came across something interesting. When I told the dish to go to reference, it scooted west with no problem. Once there, as I clicked through satellites, it moved east with no problem. But if I wanted to return to a satellite I had passed, it refused to move west. In the satellite setup menu, hitting west resulted in no movement .... but telling it to return to zero sent it off west again.
I had assumed it was perhaps low current or a problem with the motor, but now I'm wondering if something else might be to blame. Is there anything fundamentally different about the signal it gets to return to reference versus move to a satellite? Why would it move for one and not the other?
Receiver is a MicroHD, motor is an SG6100. It's set to move with USALS and I've doubled checked by location is correct in the USALS menu. Dish limits are also set to off.
