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Originally Posted by rleehamn
Tried swapping the wires on the motor and still will not go east. So the vbox2 may be the problem. I haven't got to check the voltages off of it, and I haven't tried the battery as of yet.
Thanks.
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This is probably not relevant, but a couple questions... I can't remember where you are located, in the east or west? If in the east, did you install the
actuator fully retracted when the dish was aimed to the west limit, and/or if you are in the west, did you install it fully retracted
aiming at the eastern limit? Or, are you between the Mississippi and Rockies, in which case either is OK, and neither works well. I don't think this fits your symptoms, which seem more programming than mechanical, but actuators don't work well when extended past your due south sat, so it's best to install it so that most of your sats are pushing the dish up rather than trying to pull it up. Actuators push very well, but don't pull very well.
Also, again, not likely, but are you sure that the actuator isn't slipping in the clamp that attaches to the tube? I could see a possibility that if that attachment slips, that you could end up in a configuration where it couldn't go either direction.
But I really think this is a situation of needing to manually (with battery, or otherwise), move the dish to some reference position, then reset the
VBOX. What that reference position should be is hopefully spelled out in the instructions.