Openbox S9 will not move motor

[rrob311]

My openbox quit moving the motor on my Ku satellite the other day. I hooked up my other receiver and it moves the motor fine. I am not sure what the problem is. It says moving motor but nothing happens. I tried to move it with the manual motor settings on the Openbox but it doesn't budge. Is there anything I can try besides unplugging it before I can condemn it?

 

[rrob311]

OK, I figured out why it wasn't moving the motor. I had a coaxial cable running from the LNB out into my Quali-TV receiver and the Quali-TV is on. Which brings me to my next question on how to properly slave a box. My openbox is the best blind scanning box I have but I have a Coolsat 8000 and a Quali TV that I would like to slave so I can blind scan with the openbox then put the transponder info into my other boxes to update the channels. I am not sure why that would be an issue but I am glad that my receiver is not broken.

 

[Mr Tony]

I wouold put the receiver that is going to move the dish first then slave off of that
Or better yet get a dual LNB and run a new line to the 2nd receiver

 

[rrob311]

what kind of signal loss do you typically experience when slaving a box? When I run an lnb am I supposed to turn the 22k switching on? I am not sure what the 22k function is for.

 

[WTguy]

The 22k is a setting used for multi-switches. It should be off in this situation. Like Ice said, best bet for 2 recievers with a motor, is to have a dual output lnb and have one outlet to the s9, and the other to another receiver. If you want to add a third receiver (which reads like you do) then I would slave off the second receiver. I usually lose some signal strength but not quality when I slave but I rarely do that so someone might have another suggestion in that area. Good luck. And I agree, I love my s9.

 

[rrob311]

The 22k is a setting used for multi-switches. It should be off in this situation. Like Ice said, best bet for 2 recievers with a motor, is to have a dual output lnb and have one outlet to the s9, and the other to another receiver. If you want to add a third receiver (which reads like you do) then I would slave off the second receiver. I usually lose some signal strength but not quality when I slave but I rarely do that so someone might have another suggestion in that area. Good luck. And I agree, I love my s9.

So when I am using a multiswitch should I turn on the 22k switching? I have a multiswitch for my dual lnbs on my cband dish and I was having trouble with it picking up anything. I was planning on using a diseqc switch to feed the cband signal into one port and my motorized ku dish on the other port.

 

[crackt]

most multi switches use 22k to switch between pairs of lnb inputs. 22khz off will switch to one h/v pair and 22khz on switches to the other pair on a 5x4 or 4x4 as examples.

crackt out,.

 

[Anole]

We have an FAQ that should give ya the basics on multiswitches:
Switch setups simplified