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Old 11-04-2007, 09:56 AM
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Originally Posted by littlelor View Post
I just started having this problem here with the HH90 motor, I'm in the arc as I can get all sats, but when I store them, and try to flip from one sat to the other, it goes to the farthest one in the east, I started over at my 0 postion, and then renetered all info, it stores the info, but the dish swings all the way west and goes back all the way to the east, and sits on that one sat.I do not use any switches ,Fortec star 33" dish, and hh90 motor.Would a lnb cause this problem ?
You don't say what receiver you're using, plus you don't say whether you're using DiseqC-1.2 or USALS (both of which are DiseqC formats).
I kind of assume that you're using 1.2 since you say that you're storing the positions, since USALS doesn't store any motor position.
The receiver is an issue, because if you are using a Fortec Ultra, the memory in the Ultra has been known to get scrambled, and when it does that STRANGE things happen, including it sending bogus info to the motor.
Also, if you have a Mercury II, the mercury has been shown to have some serious bugs with respect to DiseqC-1.2. In particular, if you program your sats, then delete a satellite, it mixes up which position goes with which sat. Basically the Mercury has only a partially implimented DiseqC-1.2 even when it works, but it doesn't work.
Anyway, I'd expect that there is a good chance that you have a receiver issue.
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