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Regarding the issue. It seems that my dish shrunk. No I don't believe it either, but the fix confirmed the finding.
The fix being to cannibalise one of the burnt out motors for it's drive shaft. Use said drive shaft in an electric drill to hold a new drive cog wheel. Sand down the cog...
Turns out that either the plastic drive gear has got bigger, or that the hole in the frame through which the drive gear must be passed through to engage the teeth has got smaller. Just putting the drive gear in place on it's own without the motor makes the disk very difficult to move, even when...
Wod, not sure how the relay would figure into this issue. I can hear it happily clicking away. What actually happens is that when pressing the East/West button, the dish moves a bit then stops with the Er2 message. Pressing the button again, causes the dish to move a bit more, again stoping with...
I have had a Fibo 90cm dish for over 10 years now. Connected a V-Box to it about a couple of years ago. But now the motor has had it's day and I am looking to replace the motor unit for something more up to date, preferably with a built in DiSEqC capability so that I can loose the V-Box.
Any...
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