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Originally Posted by markis13446
Hi thanks for the quick reply.
I did a factory reset on the CS8000. I'm using USALS but under USALS it gives me the option of DiSEqC-2. I recall that was my setting prior to it losing the signals.
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I'm not familiar with that receiver, but USALS is kind of an extra feature of DiseqC-1.2, specifically a goto-X command that isn't part of the original DiseqC-1.2.
If you were using plain DiseqC-1.2 before, it would have been necessary for you to find each satellite, fine tune it by bumping east or west, then store the position, which actually stores that position under some position number in the motor, not the receiver. I can't remember the exact number, but I think the
SG2100 has something like 51 position numbers that you can store satellite positions into. With some receivers, like the Fortec Lifetime and Ultra, it only lets you use from about 26-51 via the receiver, but you can use the other locations if you use the channel editor. But the idea is that you can store the position of the satellites in the motor, like AMC3 might be #7, and AMC1 might be #9 or something like that, then all that is saved in the receiver is that number, and when you access AMC3, the receiver just sends a goto-#7 command. But if you've reset your receiver, it might be that you now have different numbers saved for the different satellites, so that when you are on AMC3, it might be going to G26 or something. Anyway, you'll probably have to re-find and re-save each satellite, unless you can remember which number corresponds to which sat, and assuming that your receiver lets you select a number. Some receivers, such as the dumb Fortec
Mercury don't let you select a DiseqC-1.2 sat number, it insists on selecting it by itself, giving you the next available number, which would mean that you'd have to save the sats in the same order that you did before. Not a very good system, hopefully your receiver has a better way of selecting sat numbers.
But USALS doesn't store ANYTHING in the motor. It just uses your latitude/longitude and the sat's longitude to compute a rotation angle, and tells the motor to turn that angle. If you're using USALS, about the only thing that could go wrong would be if you entered either the sat's longitude or your longitude as east instead of west, or visa versa, in which case the motor wouldn't move at all, because it would be beyond it's range.
However, the fact that you say that the dish won't move east still suggests to me, that you haven't disabled the limits, which is usually an option in the DiseqC-1.2 section. Sometimes these limits get set to weird places, and the receiver won't be able to get the motor to move past that point. I know that happened to me once. I don't know how it happened, somehow the receiver sent some command to set the limits, and all of a sudden I couldn't move the dish one way, so I had to disable the limits, then manually reset them later.