EVERYONE , THANKS for your responses so far I greatly appreciate all your help. This has so been so very frustrating at times. ...The actuator is the Powermax PMA-24. I bought this as a package with my WS 6' ft dish and DMX741 LNBF. Just to let you know from day one I was getting the E-2 msg...
I am using low voltage irrigation wire that I bought from HDepot a few months ago when I started this project. I believe its 7 strand. The dish only moves in BUMPS it does not stay in motion with either the openbox , gbox remotes or buttons on the face of the gbox I did notice something else...
In my last reply I mentioned that I used the Gbox by itself to isolate if it was the Gbox or Openbox was at fault. I was wrong in saying the OPenbox was at fault. I came to the conclusion that the Openbox was at fault as I used AMC3 and Gal 28 (87w and 89w). Because they are next to each other...
Pixl, I did as you suggested but no luck. The dish never moves even though the openbox screen display says it moving. The Gbox like before immediately shows the correct position # on its display once the openbox sat and position # is selected. So as before no CHANGE. ....... Brent I did use...
Pixl wait one minute I just realized my MISTAKE and you even Highlighted it USE THE GBOX REMOTE to move the dish.. going to bed now got to be at work for 0645 hrs. Will try it when i get home from work at 1915 hrs.
THANKS Rodm
Pixl, the steps you mentioned above is exactly what I have done. However the dish does not move when you try to go back to a previous sat that is stored. The Gbox does show the correct pos # but the dish does not move. It does say its moving in the openbox screen but never does. I have cleared...
Fa T Air, thanks for the reply but you are way over my head in your response. I did buy my openbox which had the European sat list. I did dump that list and imported a list from sadoun which had the N. American sats. Initally when I first programmed the sats the openbox remote did move the...
Lone Cloud, I will wait to see if anyone comes up with any other ideas. Your suggestion does seem workable BUT, I would really just like to use one remote if possible ie. the openbox one.
rodm
I am having no success setting up my openbox with my gbox. Using diseqc 1.2 I was able to start saving satellite from amc3 (pos1) moving west until 7 sats were saved. However upon going back to pos1 using the openbox remote to save and move the dish I could not lock any of my sats back. I...
I am using Ubuntu 8.04 with Firefox 3.6 as my os. I had it recently placed on my main computer which is the only one that has a connection for a RS-232 serial port. I have downloaded firmware from various postings by Iceberg for my coolsat 4000 pro, including the original firmware in zip file...
Magic, I wish I had asked this question two days ago. I would have saved myself aprox. 17-18 hours of grief...lol . THANKS now back to the drawing board.
I am trying to set up USALS with my coolsat 4ooo pro receiver. I am using a WI 6 ft dish and a DMX741 lnb. I have placed my dish at my true south sat which is Nimiq2 at 82 deg which is my longitude. The receiver has been programmed with both my long. and lat. When I tell the dish to go to...
HAPPY THANKSGIVING TO ALL
I have been trying for 4 days to get a signal with a pansat 2700a that I got used. Level would go as high as 88% but no quality. Trying to hit amc 3 my closest south sat to line my dish. Got a used coolsat 4000 pro delivered this am hooked it up without changing any...
With the WIS 6 ft. dish and actuator I am having a problem understanding elevation/ declination for this set up. My lat. is 29 deg. and long. 82 deg. My south sat. for c-band seems to be galaxy 9 at 81west. My declination is 5.00. My polar elevation from what I am reading should be set at...
Brent, Doug was able to get the dish unjammed by loosening the clamp that holds the actuator and then rotating the dish back east. I then retracted the actuator arm in and did exactly as Brent said to do in POST # 140. The problem is once i attempt to move the dish west again it does move...
Screwed Up
Decided to buy a Gbox to use with my Pansat 2700a. Set my dish up facing south. With my actuator arm fully retracted from that starting position and my elevation set at 56 degrees I used my gbox to move my dish west which it did until the actuator arm was about 9" out and the...
Please disregard the last post by me and thanks to all for the help....PS my son 11 yo sent the last post after I asked him today while at work to google and see if he found any information on the above equipment.....lol....I have to give him credit for resourcefulness.
I need help with knowing some info about how General instrument 2400r satellite receiver and the antenna positioner 2000ps work together, what each one does and how to use them
Powering Actuator
I was finally able to get the out of aligned arm fixed for mounting my LNBF though it did take some good wacks with a hammer. I was wondering if I needed to buy a GBOX or a friend of mine gave me a General Instrument Videocipher II plus 2400R receiver with a GI 2000PS...
Bad Luck
Ok here goes again, used the flat ring supplied with the LNB as told. Then more problems arose after several hours of trying to get the three arms for the LNB to work and after trying all 6 slots between the panels mind you 13' off the ground on a ladder I realized only two of...
Hi, Doug and Brent THANKS for the quick reply. I will use the flat ring that came with the LNBF. Wonder why they told me at WSI that I needed to buy the conical ring,,,,,, Back up the ladder I go. I
HELP
I now have my 13' pole planted dish on what an ordeal that was............ I am having problems attaching my WS-KU2C conversion bracket and conical scalar ring supplied to the 3 feed horn poles. The three mounting holes on the ring are 45 degrees off from the poles. I have observed...