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Originally Posted by wejones
This is probably off base, but has your motor done this from the start, and or did you use your receiver much before getting the motor going? Reason I ask, is that the first thing I always suspect with any system with an Ultra in it is that maybe you've exceeded the memory limit of the Ultra, which is easy to do, and once that happens it's like poltergeists are inside the thing. All sorts of weird things happen. If this happened from the start, then ignore this, and hopefully someone else has an idea, but if you did a fair number of blind scans before noticing this problem, I'd check to see if you're over the memory limit.
EDIT: I almost deleted the above, because I don't think it's likely, however I left it, since even bad advise sometimes starts you thinking. However one other thing. You said you have no switches, but do you happen to have Diseqc turned on to some setting? I was fooling around with powering my DTV dish today with one of my Lifetime receivers, and the darn DTV started switching back and forth from 101 to 119 every couple second. It was because I had Diseqc turned on. |
I bought my setup last August, 2005 and used it for a few months without the motor. I got tired of climbing a ladder to switch between 97w and AMC 3 and bought a motor, which I though would open up all of the sats to play with. It has been one big pain in the behind. I worked on the problem for a few months and then took the motor down and went with a fixed dish. I finally decided to solve this motor problem once and for all as I hate seeing it sitting in the kitchen storage cabinet and sick of hearing my wife complain about the wasted 100 bucks. I am really mad about this thing and when I started havng problems back at the end of Sept last year after I installed it, I went to the guys who sold it to me and they said I would have to go directly to Stabb as it is a warranteed product. And you know where they sent me, to fortec. As far as your question about Diseqc, no every sat I have selected is set for USALS. I really don't think it's the motor either as it turns and goes to the sats, its the fact that it then goes back to ref. position and back to sat... again and again...the motor seems to be working just find... maybe it's the receiver. But when I reinstalled the motor this past week, I made sure to set the receiver to factory settings and still has original firmware from 2005. I just can't figure this puppy out and its one of those things that just gnaw at you until you have some resolution to the issue. I think I need to go back to fortec and complain, but they seem to be dissapearing from the market and I really don't think they will be of much help at this time.