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Originally Posted by Charlie Baker
I called fortec tech support, and they told me that my micro processor in the motor is bad.
My question is this: The 22 khz switch seemed to act funny to me. In diseqc mode, when I would move the motor by step movement, the switch would click and buzz, and sometimes the motor would not do anything, by pressing the step move again, then at times the motor would move. Is that normal? Do you think the problem could partly be the switch? I don't want to put the new motor on and have the switch cause another problem.
If the switch was acting up, could it have weakened my signal?
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I don't have any specific ideas that would be useful, particularly because I don't have the motor you have. However I would suggest to think twice before accepting what one manufacturer says about another manufacturer's product. I'd bet that if you talked to the motor company they'd blame it on the receiver.
Re the switch buzzing, I don't have a 22khz switch, however diseqc commands are sent over a 22khz carrier, so it makes sense that the switch would react to the diseqc commands. I have a meter that senses 22khz, and when I send diseqc commands, the 22khz blinks, as it should. I'm not sure about the buzzing part though.
Re whether the switch could weaken the signal, since the switch is after the motor, you normally wouldn't think so, however if it is somehow shorting out, I guess it's possible.
Again, I don't have that motor, but I'm a little confused. From reading your symptoms, it seems to me, that you may just need to do a hard reset on the motor, however I looked at a manual, and it doesn't look like this motor has a reset button, but instead that it only has some reset/resync commands that can be sent by some receivers. On my
SG2100, if you manually move the motor to it's actual zero, then do a reset, it calibrates the position of the zero position. I'm not sure if that will work with this motor or not, but before giving up on it, it's worth a try.
The other thing I'm confused about, is that in the manual I've downloaded (I think I got it off the Saduon site, but maybe not), there doesn't seem to be any mention of the
HH100 being USALS compatable. It makes me think that perhaps there was an early version of this motor which doesn't do USALS, and a later version that does. So I'm curious whether you got this motor new? From
Sadoun? Or from Ebay? And does the manual mention USALS?
Even if you do have a motor that does USALS, you were mentioning using some commands that are in diseqc-1.2 mode, and other commands that are USALS commands. You often get confusing results when trying to switch back and forth between USALS and diseqc-1.2. Different receivers do different things when you go out of one of these two modes. I'm still confused by my 2 lifetime/ultra receivers and the
Mercury with respect to when it will decide to send commands to make the motor move. But one thing is for sure, and that is that the goto position command in diseqC-1.2 isn't the same as the goto position command in USALS. The former tells the motor to go to a position stored in the motor (and the Mercury receiver has been found to get it's memory scrambled with respect to which motor position corresponds to what satellite, particularly if you have ever added a sat or deleted a sat. Basically the Mercury receiver does not have a fully implimented diseqC1.2 ). The USALS command, on the other hand tells the motor to go to an angle it computes, and that angle is relative to where the motor thinks it's zero position is, so if the motor's zero position is off, then it will go to the wrong position.
Anyway a few more things to think about.