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Question to technomate tm5402 m3 owners - max channel limit?
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<blockquote data-quote="jeallen01" data-source="post: 1075757" data-attributes="member: 176704"><p>Maybe "not" but I could only get 53E if I drove the dish there from around Berlinsat at 51.5E - if I tried from further East than 53E (had been trying to see if there was on 54.9E - but nothing) then it wouldn't find that sat.</p><p></p><p>There was certainly some slight "play" when I then set the dish to 30W (so that I could actually get access to the side of the motor mount that has the adjuster!) because I could make the motor arm move very slightly from side to side by manually rocking the dish. Very slightly adjusted the hex socket to remove that - but not enough to "lock" the mechanism up.</p><p></p><p>OTOH, still have the same issue now - and not just with 53E but also 52E! - maybe this motor, which is the older of the 2 Superior Dark Motors, just can't now handle the extra load of the Gibby due to age-related wear?</p><p></p><p>OTOH2: from this location at 0.41W, the angular difference between those sats is very, very small and so very slight motors errors do seem to make a significant difference to accurately locking onto them, especially with receivers where you can only set the azimuth to 0.1 deg under USALS (as opposed to some others where you can set it to 0.01 deg).</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="jeallen01, post: 1075757, member: 176704"] Maybe "not" but I could only get 53E if I drove the dish there from around Berlinsat at 51.5E - if I tried from further East than 53E (had been trying to see if there was on 54.9E - but nothing) then it wouldn't find that sat. There was certainly some slight "play" when I then set the dish to 30W (so that I could actually get access to the side of the motor mount that has the adjuster!) because I could make the motor arm move very slightly from side to side by manually rocking the dish. Very slightly adjusted the hex socket to remove that - but not enough to "lock" the mechanism up. OTOH, still have the same issue now - and not just with 53E but also 52E! - maybe this motor, which is the older of the 2 Superior Dark Motors, just can't now handle the extra load of the Gibby due to age-related wear? OTOH2: from this location at 0.41W, the angular difference between those sats is very, very small and so very slight motors errors do seem to make a significant difference to accurately locking onto them, especially with receivers where you can only set the azimuth to 0.1 deg under USALS (as opposed to some others where you can set it to 0.01 deg). [/QUOTE]
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