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Originally Posted by Vitruvius
Whodart, Don't try to upgrade the software yet. Do what rainman suggested and play with the the settings in the Mercury II. It is a good receiver that will work great with USALS and Disceq if you have to use it. First make sure you input your Lat and Long correctly in it. Then you can select satellites and have to tell the receiver if you want to go to it by either USALS or Disceq. Choose USALS for all the satellites you want to hit. You can select 'go to 0' and check the dish to see if it was sent back to 0. You will have to get the elevation of your dish worked just right for the south most satellite. With the angle correct, you then need to loosen the mount to the pole and rotate the entire assembly until you get a strong signal. I use the receiver as a meter with a tv out near the dish. You have to tune the receiver on the satellite you are searching.
Some fiddling may have to be made with the motor. You may have to manually move the motor back to 0 with the control buttons on the bottom of the motor, then reset it. This has happened to me sometimes in lightning storms.... hmmm.
Keep monkeying with it... |
Hey, man. Thanks for the response. OK, I will hold off on upgrading the software and firmware. I ordered a null modem cable so it won't be here for a few days yet.
OK, in the USALS mode I entered my lat/long, 34.8 x 92.1 for my location as determined with a GPS. It wanted to go to satellite at 97°, which is west of my location. I have the dish and motor lined up as close to exact south as I can get, using the
solar noon method. I selected a satellite at 91° since it was closer to my longitude and the dish went to the extreme east position and stopped. I cannot get it to respond to any commands from the receiver, go to zero, or go west, or by pushing the two buttons on bottom of motor that are supposed to move the dish a little. I can hear the relays clicking inside the motor when I do that with the buttons, or when I tell it to go to zero, but the motor doesn't operate. I just wonder if it is a bad motor? I have disconnected everything, tried all three of the reset methods, I get no led blinks from the motor. I will try again, will reset back to factory options on the receiver and get in the USALS mode and set limits and my position, and try again to get the dish to move west. Someone has told me that there is a reset hole in bottom of the motor that you have to push a pin in there and then you can move the dish and motor manually? Can't find any reference to that in the books.
THanks, agian for advise. WIll see what happens. Regards
Dave E.