I suppose you tapped the 5VDC inside the Vbox/Gbox? I don't want to void the PR1200 warranty though.Only when the V-Box is plugged in does it need to be powered on.
Johnny. The kit would most probably be what you need for proper fitment. The poles on the magnet may even be different. With a hall sensor, magnet to sensor spacing and the 'target' on the hall sensor in relation to the magnet needs to be pretty precise. For my home brew hall interface there was a bit of oscilloscope waveform monitoring while running the motor while moving my pc board mounted hall sensor around (spacing and position) to get a nice square wave and least count errors.
$50 here, $50 there, "snowballs" into $1000. But I'll probably spend the $50. I need other stuff that ranges from $200 to $1500 also. Just bought a $400 refrig to replace a working refrig because I couldn't get a door hinge for it (no longer manufactured). There's never enough money.
Would like to see pictures of all that. Hard to visualize all what you're saying without having looked at one of those actuators before. One thing I have run into while fiddling around with sensors is the old actuators have a 5 wire barrier block and the reed switch ones have a 4 wire barrier block. I have had to reposition one to accommodate a new sensor. I have an old Venture actuator that uses a cog drive belt. Looks just like ones that don't have a belt. The belt is old and about to break in the one I have. I have yet to find any replacements for it either.
Not sure of what you're asking for but here images from both the actuator for the TEK2000 and KTI. Both actuators are Venture. The TEK2000 is using a hall sensor and the KTI is using a reed. They both mount the same and look the same except the hall has 3 wires and the reed 2 wires.
Well no wonder I couldn't figure out what you were talking about. That so called hall effect sensor is the strangest thing I ever saw.
I pulled a reed sensor apart and replaced the reed in the housing and changed the magnet wheel. This tripled the counts from the sensor.
The new magnet wheel is larger in diameter and the new reed was placed so it is directly under the magnets as they pass. This also enables me to double the counts because of the way a magnetic reed switch operates. The actuator has an 8 pitch screw so the stock 4 pulse magnet yields 32 counts per inch. With the double counting 6 magnet wheel (12 pulses) X the 8 pitch screw you get 96 counts per inch.
Very useful in tracking Ku signals with a C-Band dish.
I wouldn't mind having a more accurate count even for C band. But I'm not sure if I want to put in the time and effort to do what you did. If all it takes is simply putting on a different magnet then that'll be worth my time. But if I have to mess with orientation of the switch itself or some other modification then I'm "out". I suppose that what you did would work with a hall sensor? I plan to replace the reed in the other actuator with a hall sensor and keep the reeds for backup.
