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Originally Posted by caveman_0_1
So my three SG2100 arrived. All of them power up, move right and left and it communitcates with my C4K pro without any issues (the tests were conducted indoors, not on the roof yes  ). The only problem is that only one of them was perfectly aligned to "0" for the reference, the other 2 were off by few degrees. It seems there is no way to fix it, other than opening SG2100 apart (bye bye warranty) and setting the reference point manualy, which I don't want to do. I've seen some posts on the web where people said the new motors from DMSI are like that and responses from DMSI were that in short "it is normal and it won't affect working of the motor including USALS". I'm just affraid that the motor will have arc messed-up when trying to catch far-east and far-west birds.
Does anybody had any problems when using SG2100 with messed-up reference point?
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This will probably start another argument, but this is why I've posted several times that USALS won't work properly if the zero is off on these motors. MY SG2100 was off by a couple degrees, and rather than fool with USALS, I just switched to DiseqC1.2. You can fool USALS into working by entering adjusted longitudes and such though.
That being said, however, there is a possible solution, that might work, but I haven't tried it. And that is, with that motor, you can do a complete hardware reset, and what it says to do, is to first manually bump the motor back to where it is reading zero, then do the reset (the manual says to insert a thin rod into the reset hole for 2 seconds). It sounds like this should bring the thing back to where it was reading zero when the firmware thinks it is at zero, which should allow USALS to work fine. Since you haven't installed or programmed your motor yet, you could be the ideal person to test this. I think it should work.