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For months and months I've been struggling with my SuperJack (which I have started calling SuperJunk) actuator. It has been losing counts badly, and I'd cringe each time I'd have to move the dish to G1 to get the guide info, because it likely was going to stall part way down.
I was visiting my parents this past weekend, and I was telling my father about my satellite actuator woes. He took me back to his storage shed, from which he pulled out 2 Von Weise actuators. He had found them in his rural garbage dump. Both actuators were in excellent shape.
Less than 24 hours after getting back home, I hooked up my 'garbage dump' actuator, and WOW, it is awesome! It appears to be a 24 inch actuator, which will let me scan from 37.5 West to 139 West with no troubles at all. My old SuperJunk actuator is headed to the recycling depot. I have a spare Von Weise actuator in my storage shed now for parts.
Attached are pictures, just because everybody loves pictures
One picture shows the difference in size between a SuperJack and a Von Weise Actuator. The Von Weise is MUCH heavier in weight.
I was visiting my parents this past weekend, and I was telling my father about my satellite actuator woes. He took me back to his storage shed, from which he pulled out 2 Von Weise actuators. He had found them in his rural garbage dump. Both actuators were in excellent shape.
Less than 24 hours after getting back home, I hooked up my 'garbage dump' actuator, and WOW, it is awesome! It appears to be a 24 inch actuator, which will let me scan from 37.5 West to 139 West with no troubles at all. My old SuperJunk actuator is headed to the recycling depot. I have a spare Von Weise actuator in my storage shed now for parts.
Attached are pictures, just because everybody loves pictures
One picture shows the difference in size between a SuperJack and a Von Weise Actuator. The Von Weise is MUCH heavier in weight.
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Hey that is exactly what I have (superjack). Does your positions keep changing? I have to manually keep the numbers from the mover and if I don't use it for a while the numbers change.
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Davage's problems were loosing counts and the motor stalling. Could be in the reed sensor, the motor itself or the arm. One would have to tear it all apart from what I know to troubleshoot. The superjack seems like a cheap arm. I had problems with a less than one year old Moteck loosing counts. I rebuilt my old Thompson Saginaw's motor and put it back, it has been dead nuts on. I guess what it all boils down to is cheap is cheap, quality is quality. The only reason my Thompson Saginaw quit was because the brushes wore out after 19 years. The Moteck failed from cheap design in less than a year.
Hey that is exactly what I have (superjack). Does your positions keep changing? I have to manually keep the numbers from the mover and if I don't use it for a while the numbers change.
Davage's problems were loosing counts and the motor stalling. Could be in the reed sensor, the motor itself or the arm. One would have to tear it all apart from what I know to troubleshoot. The superjack seems like a cheap arm. I had problems with a less than one year old Moteck loosing counts. I rebuilt my old Thompson Saginaw's motor and put it back, it has been dead nuts on. I guess what it all boils down to is cheap is cheap, quality is quality. The only reason my Thompson Saginaw quit was because the brushes wore out after 19 years. The Moteck failed from cheap design in less than a year.
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My SuperJack actuator would stall for no reason, and in cold weather, it would artificially report that it was at the physical limit. It would lose counts all the time. I was continually adjusting the 4DTV receiver to compensate for the lost counts or stalled dish moves.
The Von Weise jack I've got now (which is from a garbage dump) works perfectly. I got my BUD for free, and my jack from the garbage dump That is the true meaning of recycling.
Hey that is exactly what I have (superjack). Does your positions keep changing? I have to manually keep the numbers from the mover and if I don't use it for a while the numbers change.
My SuperJack actuator would stall for no reason, and in cold weather, it would artificially report that it was at the physical limit. It would lose counts all the time. I was continually adjusting the 4DTV receiver to compensate for the lost counts or stalled dish moves.
The Von Weise jack I've got now (which is from a garbage dump) works perfectly. I got my BUD for free, and my jack from the garbage dump
That is the true meaning of recycling.
T
One man's garbage is another man's treasure
The Von Weise jack I've got now (which is from a garbage dump) works perfectly. I got my BUD for free, and my jack from the garbage dump
One man's garbage is another man's treasure
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Continuing the Kilauea thread in the Pub here. Perhaps the Iceland one too next time there's remarkable activity.
Currently there is precursory lava flowing into the crater, leading to the next episode that'll probably start within the next day.
You can see the pace of inflation / deflation here. It serves as the primary predictor for when the expect the eruptions, which coincide w/ inflation turning into significant deflation and last for several hours on average with significant fountaining.
www.usgs.gov
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Wife and I like the AfarTV feeds, for the discussion along w/ them, though they're otherwise just mirrors of the official USGS feeds.
View: https://youtu.be/iws3rh5vLAQ
Currently there is precursory lava flowing into the crater, leading to the next episode that'll probably start within the next day.
You can see the pace of inflation / deflation here. It serves as the primary predictor for when the expect the eruptions, which coincide w/ inflation turning into significant deflation and last for several hours on average with significant fountaining.
Monitoring Data for Kīlauea
For more information on how electronic tiltmeters and GPS receivers help monitor the deformation of Kīlauea volcano, see the HVO Deformation page.
View: https://youtu.be/Uecu2seh4b4
Wife and I like the AfarTV feeds, for the discussion along w/ them, though they're otherwise just mirrors of the official USGS feeds.
View: https://youtu.be/iws3rh5vLAQ
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Since the Reds have there thread we should too!
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Not sure saving $24/year is worth it unless you're a hardcore Philo user. I'll stick with monthly.
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I have Dish with Hopper3. I choose to get local channels OTA and had a "guide list" established at my previous home. Having moved a few miles away, I wanted to update the list by appending a couple new stations via a rescan. As many would know, some stations come in with the UHF/VHF antenna aimed in one direction, while others come in better with a different direction.
Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.
It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list.
Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
Unfortunately, when a scan is done (bringing in 25-30 stations for that particular antenna aim), the dialog screen does not present the established guide list; it presents an empty field to the right that the scanned stations may be selected one by one and added to the empty guide. But because of antenna aim, some stations originally saved are missing, and would have to be retrieved with a different antenna aim. But as I explain, if a 2nd scan is done with a different antenna aim, the stations saved from the first scan are lost.
It troubles me that Dish didn't develop software that would allow a user to simply append only 1 or 2 channels to the established list.
Any thought on this? Has anyone experienced this or heard of this from others?
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