[wejones]

Originally Posted by glen4cindy

Okay, I now have more information.

In following the instructions for installing the dish, I am here:

• In the USALS (or DiSEqC 1.3) menu, enter your Latitude (##.# N) and your Longitude (###.# W)
• Select one of the FTA satellites such as IA5 KU at 97W
• Select MOVE
• The Motor will now move the dish to where the satellite is.

I don't see anywhere on the *positioner menu* where there is a MOVE. I select the sat, input my lat/long and hit the green button for save and return. At this point, nothing happens. No motor movement. I do have a steady green at the motor. If I go into the menu and choose Goto REF, the motor moves all the way over and stays there until I go over to the dish and manually move it back.

What would cause this? I have checked my coax, and it is new RG-6 and new connectors.

I have tried doing this with each sat, but, the dish just sits there and does not move any at all unless I Goto REF.

Thanks

Do I understand correctly, that when you "Goto REF" that the dish swings all the way over to the west, like what seems to be shown in the picture near the top? If so, this shouldn't be the case. It should go to a due south position, where the 30 degre bend in the motor shaft is pointing down, and the mark on the shaft should be centered.

I may have misunderstood, but if the above is the case, then it sounds to me like your motor's zero position has been corrupted. This seemed to happen to me, although no nearly to the extreme that yours did, plus in my case, it didn't seem to be that the zero position was so much corrupted, but that my east/west limits got changed so that the dish couldn't get to the zero position. I was able to fix my motor by disabling the east/west limits, then manually setting the limits again at reasonable positions. I can't remember, but I think that after doing the disable limit thing, I went out, and used the buttons on the motor to manually move the dish east, and reset the east limit (inside), then went out and manually moved to the west, and reset the west limit inside. After that, the "Goto REF" command went to near the actual zero position again. I say near, because it has always been a couple degrees off. I should do a motor reset to see if that fixes it, but it's working fairly well, so I decided to wait until it gets mixed up again.
Anyway, I'd suggest trying the disable limits thing, and reset the limits, THEN try again to "Goto REF" to see where it goes. If it STILL goes way over to the west, then I think that I would move the thing to what the zero should be, ie line up with the mark on the shaft with bend aiming down, and then do a full motor reset. But I'd advise waiting until other people who have had this motor longer have a chance to respond. Someone else may have a better idea.