Improved My OpenBox S10 for .58 Cents
For the most part I have been happy with my S10. As everyone knows they have their issues and bugs, but after finding the firmware that works for me, I have been ok with it. The only major problem I have ever had with it, was driving a USALS motor. It would drive it very, very slowly for a few seconds and then stop. At this time the S10 would sometimes reset its self. I don't use a USALS motor very often as I have a C/Ku LNBF on my eight footer and after a few weeks of tweaking it last fall got it too work on both just fine. So I didn't think much more about it and the motor just sat out there unused. Well after reading the work that
Pixl has been doing on an S9, I decided to crack the case on the OpenBox again. When looking to see what thermistor it has, it actually had a better one than his S9 did. It was rated 60V at 650 milliamps. So I don't know if it was just a weak part or what. Anyway I ordered 10 of the part he suggested in his thread
here. Yes one is all I needed, but I'm always working on something or someone has me working on something, so I always order more than one of something if it is cheap like this.
Anyway I got the parts in very quick from Digi-Key and today I had a chance to change out the thermistor. So I got it changed and hooked it back up. I went outside and moved the coax over to the SG-9120B. I came in and fired up the S10 and.................Fixed!!! It moves the motor very well now. It moves fast through the arc and back and through the arc again with no problems and the new thermistor was running cool to the touch. So the S10 is back together now and back in its place in the entertainment center. So if I ever want to run a USALS motor with it I will not worry about just doing it.
A BIG thanks to Pixl for all his hard work and a very well done article on what he did!!! If it wasn't for him my S10 still would not be able to move the SG-9120B.
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