[wejones]

Originally Posted by rleehamn

Finally, some luck..

I don't really know the names of the parts but here goes..

where the 2 motor wire hook to two switches by long very slim bolts with a (plastic) separater between them.

(I've tried several times pushing the buttons prior with no change.)

I pulled the two sets of wires off of the switch and swap then hook to battery. Dish now moves east and not west.

I then pull the two switches (since getting dark) took inside and hook to a multimeter. The outer switch show no resistants and the inside switch did. So I slip the bolts off of them, and on each side of the plastic was a light film of oil. I went ahead and wipe that off of both, (since I didn't know if it was suppose to be and because I was going try to replace them)
I then decide to chech them again with the meter. They both check good!!
Maybe one of the switches was hung?! ( When you push on the switch there is no resistants (nothing on meter) let go and you do.

I put both back in, put cover on hook to battery and dish went east then west.

Hooked back up to vbox2 everything back to normal.

I tried to look up the switches with no luck in case I need to replace.
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I don't completely understand what you're describing, and I'm not familiar with that particular actuator (I'm more familiar with the HT actuators), but what you're describing sounds like the internal mechanical limit switches on the motor. You can usually adjust these, however it is not a good idea to operate without them, because those motors have enough leverage that you can do damage to the dish and things near the dish, if they don't stop when they get to the limits. It does sound like one of the switches got stuck open. It's been a while since I've had my actuators apart, but I think that it's possible to get the motor limit slider out of sync with the actual position of the actuator's piston. Ie, on the actuators I've used (I don't use an actuator now, since my big dish has a H-H), you could take the motor off the shaft, and run the motor, and the limit mechanism would be moving even though the piston wasn't extending, then when you put it back together it wouldn't be in sync. Same thing would happen if the threads slipped on the limit mechanism. Also, things can get confused limit wise, if the shaft is allowed to turn, like if it isn't attached to the dish, or if the cylinder isn't bolted in securely. I remember once that I once tried moving my dish, but instead the motor spun around. Dish didn't move, but I had a big birdsnest of wire wrapped around it.

But anyway, I'd recommend exercising those switches to see if they will work again, and put them back in. Your system should really never activate them, so if you push the button until they are conducting again, the system should work. I'd then make sure that the position of the slider that activates that switch actually relates properly to the position of the actuator shaft. If it doesn't, I'd recommend manually moving either the actuator shaft or the motor to get them in sync. On the actuators I've used, you can run the actuator with a hand drill, and run the motor with a battery, separately.