Advice Needed Problems with new motorised set-up

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What dish are you going to use in the end? Something like a TD110 would be nice. Too many crap dishes about.
 
Huevos said:
What dish are you going to use in the end? Something like a TD110 would be nice. Too many crap dishes about.
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Been looking on the internet for a TD110 or Laminas 1200, neither easily available in Spain. WOS don´t go up to the TD110, so will have to look elsewhere. Got anything in the garden I can run tests with?

Have re-engineered a mount of one of the LH110´s just need to cut the excess off and can the try it
 
Use an LH110 until something comes up. And get a DiSEqC switch from the Russians so you can use your fixed dish for 28E without swapping cables.
 
Don´t need the DiSEqC , 1.8 is running on the Sagemcom ( two feeds ) third in the bedroom and number four is behind the VU SE, along with the feed from the 1.4 Fam
 
Well you need a switch so the box automatically switches between feed 4 of the 1.8m and the motorised.
 
Ok. Anyway pick up a switch next time you are there. 4:1 would be good so you can add other things later.
 
new motor has arrived so have just done a quick set up. ok in the centre 15db on 0.8w , going west ok. going east, 19.2 ok 23.5 a bit low 28.2 ony 4db on pick 11914H. Upped the dish elevation and now getting 12.5 db on pick. As a result have lost 2db on 0.8w , 12.5w down and 24.5w almost gone.
Need to set back to 0.8w and then rotate the whole motor assembly slightly west and try again, is this correct?
Going out for another meal tonight so will continue playing tomorrow. ( house guests get in the way of playing! )
 
If you needed to raise elevation to get 28E it means the motor needs to go east.
 
You need to have the correct co-ordinates entered in your meter. Then get the meter to send the dish to 0.8W. Then adjust.
 
Had another play today following advice. Took 3 attempts to find the correct position for the motor, then locked the dish on 0.8w and tracked to 28.2e. Full lock, even getting some of the ITV, BBC etc from spot beams on the LH110 with modified mount. Can now scan from 68.5E to 45W and back with no problem. Dark motor definitely better than previous sat motor. Only problem so far is it is a little hit and miss when trying to find 45W, sometimes yes, sometimes no. Will check that later when have time

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Milamber said:
Had another play today following advice. Took 3 attempts to find the correct position for the motor, then locked the dish on 0.8w and tracked to 28.2e. Full lock, even getting some of the ITV, BBC etc from spot beams on the LH110 with modified mount. Can now scan from 68.5E to 45W and back with no problem. Dark motor definitely better than previous sat motor. Only problem so far is it is a little hit and miss when trying to find 45W, sometimes yes, sometimes no. Will check that later when have time

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Glad you got it sorted. No real loss with 45W. There's nowt on there anyway.
 
Had a further play last night and again this morning. By a small adjustment in the motor setup setting I can hone the dish to get max signal frowm 45w to 68.5e. Reducing the West position from 0.7w to 0.2w gives max signal on East satellites. Going West, adjustment from 0.7w to 0.9w gives me a full lock on 45w. Suspect my motor elevation is very slightly out, but as I only have level with a very crude swivel scale and the adjustment on the motor is quite coarse, I think I will leave it for now, maybe if I get a TD110 or a 1.2m dish may try and adjust it with no dish on the motor. Trying to adjust it with a dish on the motor on your own is very difficult to say the least!
 
Brian, don't fudge the settings. Set the longitude at 0.7W. Lat 38.2N? Send the dish to 0.8W and adjust for maximum signal on the spectrum. Send to 30ºW. Gave the dish a pull/push to see if you are high or low on that satellite. Do the same on 28ºE. From that you will see where you are out of sync with the arc.

Really need to set the motor elevation with the digital level. I know it is possible without doing this but will save a lot of time.
 
Huevos said:
Brian, don't fudge the settings. Set the longitude at 0.7W. Lat 38.2N? Send the dish to 0.8W and adjust for maximum signal on the spectrum. Send to 30ºW. Gave the dish a pull/push to see if you are high or low on that satellite. Do the same on 28ºE. From that you will see where you are out of sync with the arc.

Really need to set the motor elevation with the digital level. I know it is possible without doing this but will save a lot of time.
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Thanks for info H, but I'm sure it's only about .5 degrees out on motor elevation, motor position must be near perfect for 0.0 degrees as I can see the whole arc without tweeking. For now I think I'll leave it alone until I get a new dish. Or, big hint, a digital level happens to be passing nearby!
 
Just ran " blind scan " on a few sats using the VU+ Solo SE I have, what a heap of sh*t. Half the time it tells me there are no transponders within parameters. When I ask it to do a FTA scan it gives me a load of encrypted channels or a load of " not found in PAT " message. Considering what it cost and how " Good " VU+ stb´s are I think I wasted over 200€. Will bin it tomorrow and buy a much cheaper Enigma 2 box of the Russians which I´m sure will work
 
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