Strange USALS Behaviour

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Grifta

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Pace msp200 & Philips offset dish 90 cm decoder turning up on Tuesday
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So i thought i would have a go with a motor dish setup

I have a 0.9m philips Fibo stop dish on a DM200 Icecrypt mount attached to an Icecrypt S3750CHD receiver.
Took all day to realise I had to drill down into one of the many satellite listings via edit and press the yellow button to select USALS.
Once i did this I inputted my latitude and longitude and then pressed the green key to set all sat position listings to USALS.
The problem is all sats east of zero degrees drop in ok but those west of zero dont.
Hispasat for instance at 30W drives the dish all the way back to the East.
So ATM I've only got eastern satellites.

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Grifta said:
Hispasat for instance at 30W drives the dish all the way back to the East.
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So all west-satellites send the motor to east?
First thought that comes to my mind is that 30W is not inputted as a west satellite in your receiver, but as a east satellite.

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There could potentially be some limits set... this was seen with some Stab motors.
 
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The Icecrypt motor is not a Stab clone.

I would suggest looking for the reset function in the manual, carrying it out, then use the DiSEqC 1.2 function if your receiver works in that mode.
 
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@Grifta

Is this a new installation, or have you previously had the Icecrypt successfully driving the dish West of 0 deg but now it won't do that anymore?

FWIW, 2 years ago, I had an Icecyrpt 3250CCIHD and found out by tortuous trial and error that some of its DiSEqC 1.1 commands didn't work correctly and were not recognized by DiSEqC switches - so I wonder if something related/similar is wrong with the DiSEqC generation circuits in your receiver?

I got my money back from Icecrypt UK because they could not find out/fix the issues, and it might also be "significant" that Icecrypt (at least as a brand in the UK) closed down and disappeared that same year.
 
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