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Originally Posted by stevec5000
I've mounted an old Primestar dish on a Horizon to Horizon mount but now I need to program a controller to run the 36 volt motor. I have a 20 year old Tracker IV Satellite Locator (not the Tracker IV receiver) but can't remember how to program it or find the instruction manual and Google didn't turn up anything. Does anyone out there have the directions or remember how to do it? Tks.
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I'm curious what this looked like, and what kind of connections are on the back? Reason I ask, is that I don't have a "Traker IV" but I do have an "Aimer IV", by "Draco" . This is from about the same era. I just thought that because of the "IV" that they might be the same dish mover sold under different names. Mine is about an inch tall, about 13 or 14" wide, and about 8" deep (just estimates), and it is VERY HEAVY. It's black, except that the front panel is metalic, with an led readout at the left. The connections to the
actuator are via a contact that has about 8 pins. I don't have the plug that plug that goes into this any more, but I think I have the pinout somewhere.
My Aimer IV originally was used with an old H-H that had a weird controller on it which had the electronics out at the dish. It had an optical sensor, which was a little wheel with pie sections alternately clear and blacked out to block a beam between light and optical sensor as the wheel spun. I finally stopped using the thing when lightning took out the optical controller at the dish, and I converted to a conventional actuator. Haven't used the thing for about 16 years. Not sure if I have the manual anywhere or not, but if it sounds like the same thing, I'll look.