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Originally Posted by pmb1010
there are 2 scales on the HH90 motor (either side)
did you set the side that as "LAT" on it to 40.1 (your latitude setting)?
38.8 is right for the dish elevation, according to my calculations.
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I think the 2 scales on that motor are for use with the high latitude and low latitude holes in the mount, and I think he's using the right scale.
The thing that looks a bit strange to me, is it looks like maybe where the dish mount attaches to the motor shaft, that he might not be centered right. I seem to remember a post, or looking at a picture of one of those motors, which seemed to show that some of the shafts had the hole in the shaft off center or something. The mount he's using needs to have it's bolt go through a hole that is centered and perpendicular to the alignment marks on the shaft, but the picture seems to make it look like this might not be the case, but it's hard to tell for sure. It's also possible that he had the motor rotated when he tried lining up his due south sat. The lower elevation from the rotated motor would require more dish elevation to get the due south sat, and then the other sats would be way out of alignment. You can do things like that when you start trying to find sats by all methods (motor,motor mount,dish elevation) randomly, instead of step by step in the right order.