Think my motorised install went wrong

[Channel Hopper]

I would have thought that there would be quite a few, competent, motorized installers, in the London area, but apparently not !!!!

It's Romford, slightly further from central London than wot I am, and I wouldn't travel in for a maintenance job these days.

 

[Ghostleader]

agreed, looks like he,s not touched it out of the box

I'll third that, but surely to hell no body would make that error that's your first setting you can make at ground level for gawd sake[emoji15]

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[Ghostleader]

Here's a pic of my setup mate, Dark Motors scale is different in appearance but trust me, yours looks out, and am not even sure about the dishes setting, can't really see from the pics angles and distance.

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[Ghostleader]

Dankargo, your dish looks about 15 feet up, domestic double set ladders would get you up there bud.........that's all am saying lol

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[dankargo]

I'm happy to report that my bad install has well and truly been fixed!

A member on another forum was in the area and happened to see my post. He took everything down and started from scratch, even moving the bracket higher up the wall so I would not lose signal from surrounding trees.

Within 2 hours, I'm now receiving 60E through to 30W. I'm getting about 40% signal on 7W & 26e which I thought would be really difficult to receive on an 80cm dish.

Hotbird is now booming in signal too and I am finally receiving Turkmenistan 52E at 79% SNR. Absolutely chuffed. Will post some pics of the install tomorrow so you can compare it to before.

 

[Captain Jack]

5w is very strong, I guess you mean 7w?

Glad you're sorted. Goes to show how many professional cowboys there are out there with next to zero knowledge.

 

[dankargo]

5w is very strong, I guess you mean 7w?

Glad you're sorted. Goes to show how many professional cowboys there are out there with next to zero knowledge.

Yes sorry I meant 7W

 

[Channel Hopper]

I'm happy to report that my bad install has well and truly been fixed!

A member on another forum was in the area and happened to see my post. He took everything down and started from scratch, even moving the bracket higher up the wall so I would not lose signal from surrounding trees.

What other forum ?

 

[dankargo]

What other forum ?

Digital Spy Forums. Sorry I wasn't sure if I could mention the name or not. I'd posted in both forums in the hope that someone might be local and I was just very lucky I guess that someone was in the area.

 

[dankargo]

Here is how the install is looking now - much better than how it was looking this time last week!

 

[Captain Jack]

Looks good.. but that stand-off is just huge. Would definitely prefer something more sturdy, like a T&K set up.

 

[TJExcalibur]

Looks good.. but that stand-off is just huge. Would definitely prefer something more sturdy, like a T&K set up.

I have to agree. Just finished setting up my Master Focus today, fitted on a triangler stand off. Very secure and sturdy but I noticed with a gust of wind coming in parallel with the dish face there was a slight vertical tremor. Thought it best to make up another support so its now its sturdier. Problem solved. Photos to follow when I can crop and upload.

 

[dankargo]

I didn't really want to open a new thread just to ask this question as it kind of falls into this.

My motor install has been great since it was fixed a few weeks back. However this week I noticed my Openbox V8S receiver crashed when I was flicking through the channels on 10E. It was unresponsive so I had no choice but to pull the power cable out and reinsert it.

Today the same thing happened, not once but twice in 5 minutes and on the same satellite. Again, I had to pull the power cable out both times to get the box back in its working state.

The boxes are cheap I know and its now made me start hunting for a better box to use my motor with. I'm worried now though that the sudden loss of power to the box from the crashes can cause damage to the motor itself?

 

[Mickha]

If this is only happening on 10E you might want to try deleting all channels, on that satellite, and manually scanning them in again, just in case it's a channel causing the problem, if this doesn't work try removing 10 East completely, then adding it again, or load a different channel list.

 

[dankargo]

If this is only happening on 10E you might want to try deleting all channels, on that satellite, and manually scanning them in again, just in case it's a channel causing the problem, if this doesn't work try removing 10 East completely, then adding it again, or load a different channel list.

Thanks for the prompt reply Mickha.

I wish that did resolve it but that's the exact thing I tried this morning - completely cleared the channel list for 10E and did a blind scan. It was pulling in channels from 9E too which I imagine is because that satellite is so strong. It's very strange though, most of the time the dish is usually pointing to 42 E and the channel list for that satellite is much larger but the box seems to cope with it fine.

I bought my Openbox from eBay and the listing stated it was genuine (but you can never really be sure with some sellers on there). I've heard that attempting to update the firmware can brick the box completely so I've avoided it, but if I do get another receiver I probably will attempt it just to see if the box is indeed genuine.

But really the main thing bothering me is the motor itself. Will there be constant power going to the motor or does it just wake up when the command to move dish is sent to it? I know it's not exactly the same thing but in the past when my PC crashed, I switched it off from the power button and that caused the hard drive to fail!

 

[sonnetpete]

Just a thought, but if you've blindscanned, have you logged a couple of channels which are 32ASPK or there's a couple on 10748V which are 8PSK and ACM/VCM and could be crashing the box when you flick through.

 

[dankargo]

Just a thought, but if you've blindscanned, have you logged a couple of channels which are 32ASPK or there's a couple on 10748V which are 8PSK and ACM/VCM and could be crashing the box when you flick through.

Unfortunately no I didn't make a note of the channel names but I know for a fact they were feeds. In fact, thinking about it each time its happened it has crashed on a feed.

 

[Trust]

Do the box crashes when its allready at 10 E and you are switching between channels ?
Or when its coming from 42E ?

 

[dankargo]

Do the box crashes when its allready at 10 E and you are switching between channels ?
Or when its coming from 42E ?

The box crashes when I am already at 10 E and just switching between channels. Seems to crash on feeds rather than mainstream channels. No problem switching channels on 42 E, 19.2 E or 13 E. Think it may have happened a few weeks back on a 16 E feed though. Could it be something to do with high bitrate or codecs used?

 

[smoggy07]

I'd say the box locking up is something to do with the firmware image on the box, the channel/feed might have something transmitted over the top that the firmware image can't handle/understand causing it to lock up (think multi-stream or funky codec or 4:2:2 stream being likely targets), I get that on my DM500 on different channels/feeds across the arc every now and then