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zack said:

Brian, it has been at least three times you have asked me to open a new post about this!

You sent me a new motherboard despite it being out of warranty, that did not fix it! Thank You Again for trying!!

When I read about the ASC1 going away I bought one of the last ones available. It sat in the back bedroom for awhile and then I had someone hook it up for me.

The last time I had talked to you on the phone, my sat had taken off on a wild dive to the east with the ASC1 clicking and blinking on and off! My numbers still showed me at SES 101

You said it was do to my wiring, I disagreed, I said receiver glitch, you told me how to move the sat back and reset the counts, and all was good!

Last Friday I went to a sat and my channel had no signal, it did not take me long to realize it was an old channel no longer in use! I need to delete this sat and rescan it! That way I only see the new channels!

Dumbass me I do it again, I do not highlight the sat I want, I just hit delete all! That means I have to rescan all off them!

Saturday morning I realize I am missing some channels on some sats and I am unable to change my skew?

Sunday I do nothing, I am so disgusted, you select a sat you may have to wait 45 or50 seconds before the ASC1 clicks!

Monday, I realized that the ASC1 was controlling the skew motor again!

Today it is working perfectly! It has to be the receiver? Right?

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Titanium said:

1.Swap to a different STB to test. A controller moves when it receives a command. The STB issues the move commands. The Linkbox motor control interface is poorly implemented and problematic for many users. You may also find that STB may need to be reset and the firmware reloaded.

2. Last year you reported skew problems associated with HVAC and lighning. In a long thread, we advised that cat5 was not appropriate for distribution, but instead of replacing the cat5, it was reported to be repaired. This remains the likely cause of the positioning error. Only use shielded wire for servo circuits.

To test: Place an ammeter on the servo ciruit and observe during a dish movement. I am expecting that you will see a significant current draw happen in association with these events and to a lessor extent during any actuator movement. Alternatively, watch the polarity probe as the dish is moving, I am 99% certain that the probe will be over-rotating when the actuator runs and the positioning error occurs. My guess is that the problem will be amplified at the edges of the arc, when the actuator is under the most load.

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zack said:

Brian, I left out that after the first time I left the Linkbox powered down! I did not like that click just after turn on, I will take you word for it that my Linbox is causing my problems, garbage in, garbage out! Seems to happen after I use the last channel button a lot more than usual!

I have no way of reloading the firmware?

I do have an openbox that I have tried loading American sats into, but I had no luck!

Last year I bought shielded security wire, it is working really well, unless it is a really close lighting strike! As in the flash and boom are at the same time! I have had two since then. Makes you wonder if anything is left of your system!

I do have a spare skew motor, I used three jumper wires to connect it to the rear of the ASC1 and it worked!
I did not disconnect anything before doing so this tells me nothing is shorted out to the dish!

This was cheap security wire, this will be at least the third run of that stuff!

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