About a year ago I have purchased positioner from USA. In the description provided by seller vas written 120-230V, so I did believe seller, and after plugging positioner to 220V socket it exploded with some noise and pretty bad smell. Then I opened an issue via e-bay, and seller was forced to give all my money back and broken device stayed as my property, cuz it would cost additional money for shipping across the pond. In addition e-bay gave me 10$ coupon as a pain-money for my future purchases.
Than I’ve got transformer changed, but same like you could not find proper replacement, so 1 transformer was replaced by 2. First (very small one) 12V for electronics and big one 24V for actuator. And this setup still works for me fine and drives 1,5m PFA from 90*E to 30*W in just one minute. If I had 36V transformer than antenna would move maybe lit bit faster.
If you sure that in your positioner has only transformer problem than I would suggest to fix it, will not cost you a fortune. You can find some second hand analog SAT-receivers for almost no money, but good thing that some of those receivers have internal positioners, that mean same type of transformers you need. Attached pictures: My working positioner fixed, and second one – rest of my positioner stuff (2 analog tuners with positioners +3 positioners). And forgot, on the attic I have another positioner that came with 120cm PFA and actuator (all original Kathrein, about 20 years old but still in ship shape condition).
