gude me using dreambox 500s with motorised dish

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sitja

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My Satellite Setup
sky digital, dreambox 500s using cccam 2.0.9 with gemini 4.2 image
My Location
ireland
hi i looking through most tutorials im wondering is it ok to use usals when trying to get dreambox to pick up sats with motor dish- seems it dont work for alot.. i cant really see any guides on how to actually use the dreambox 500s with the motor if anyone knows or done this give me a few pointer. thank you.
 
Hi,
Dreambox 500 is ok for movable dish.
What size of this do you have? Isn't it an offset one?
What's about your rotor and its model?
I suppose you've never used a different rotor.
This informations are needed for a better solution.

Max
 
The Dreambox 500s and any clone that is derived from it is a waste of time for moving a dish unless the cable between the receiver and the dish is short, by short meaning under 5m and your prepared to mess with it for a few hours :eek:

The receiver just doesn't have the power required with its puny power supply :eek:

If you want to use it with a motor your best getting shut of it and getting a box thats upto the job.

The DM600 works well on a motor as does the DM7020. If your after something on the cheaper side of the market the Technomate TM600 & TM500 are also good with a motorised dish :D

You can also look at the IPbox 200s, these too are also good with motors :-righton

:-beer

Nano
 
nanochickin said:
The Dreambox 500s and any clone that is derived from it is a waste of time for moving a dish unless the cable between the receiver and the dish is short, by short meaning under 5m and your prepared to mess with it for a few hours :eek:
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I have had a clone 500s driving my Superjack Motor and 1m dish for the last 7 months and it has never encountered a power issue.My cable run is around 10m .
I had read horror stories of people complaining about the 500s and its inability to drive a diseqc motor.
I think the main issue with the 500s was on the earlier external psu's which were rated 1A and didnt have enough power .The newer ones are 2A .
That being said alot of the psu's sold with clone 500s boxes are rubbish and blow easily.
 
nanochickin said:
The Dreambox 500s and any clone that is derived from it is a waste of time for moving a dish unless the cable between the receiver and the dish is short, by short meaning under 5m and your prepared to mess with it for a few hours
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I tested Dm 500 clones in past and I've never had this kind of problem on movable dish. In my old experience, when I had this problem it was ever a rotor defect; so I ask for what's the kind of rotor. This may help, as more advices about the settlement.

Max
 
i havent got motor set up just yet but getting 80cm dish and Moteck 2100A Motor With DiseqC 1.2 And GO TO X ( USALS). just havent seen much tutorials on set up from that box and and just want to be able to understand what settings and everything else to do on the box when i get it. thanks for replies
 
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