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Ok, we're in business .

I was quickly able to locate 91 with the circular lnb by setting the elevation to desired value subtracting 22.7 from the stamped scale (I set a temporary reference point). I then swapped in the linear lnb and was able to lock in amc-5., tweaked for best signal and got a picture up in no time. I then used a permanent marker to set a true south reference point on the pole (it was about 10 degrees from where I was thinking it was).

I then moved onto getting the motor setup. With the reference point now setup, it didn't take long. I ran outta time so I wasn't able to tune the east/west sats (or even look for them), as it was already dark by the time I finished the motor setup and playing with a few issues that I ran into... I'll have to sort them out:

1. the clamping force of the dish bracket wasn't enough to keep the dish from moving with a little bit of applied force on the motor shaft. I ended up overtighting the bolt... backed it off a little bit so it was onto better thread section and tighten the other side. I can also see the metal bracket colapsing when tighting - so I doubt I'll ever get enough grab with this hardware.
- I'm thinking of drilling a hole through the back of the bracket and into the motor shaft (it's hollow) and using a self tapping screw to keep the two locked together.

2. The darn motor or receiver is stuck on the keeping the wrong position for amc-5. I've told the receiver/motor to re-sync a number of times after I've used receiver to get the motor back to 0... also used manual adjustments through receiver and then set function... but it always go back to the initial location it has for the satellite. Atleast I can use goto 0 function to get it back centered again. I'm not sure if it's the motor or receiver that's at fault. I'm kinda suspecting receiver as I tried blowing away the antenna setup, but that also seems to be coming back. I can also try the motor reset procedure (didn't have a small enough wire to do it, otherwise I would have done that too).

3. I was issuing motor commands and their seems to be very little synchronization/motor control between motor and receiver. Often as it was spinning off to the wrong location for amc-5, I was issuing 'stop' or 'move west' commands and it simply ignored those commands. Othertimes it seemed it queued them until it got to the target location and then reacted. A few times it also interpret them as go full west because it had queued up a few individual go west commands. Is this typical for these motors? Does the sg2100 have better synchronization? I 'm most likely stuck with this motor at this stage (and especially if I start drilling a hole into the shaft), but If the sg2100 is that much better, it'll be worth a try to see if I can swap (there was only a few dollars difference).

Any comments or other recommendations on these issues?

Thanks,

The u-bolt worked great. I just had to enlarge the holes on the bracket.

I reset the motor and then tuned in amc-5, g10r and IA-5. Still not happy with the way the it seems to be squirrely at times trying to adjust sat positions... maybe it's just the receiver. The guide seems to be pretty slow though and pretty much non-existing (I dunno if this is the receiver or just that the guide data isn't available on some of the sats.

Next, want to check out the sticky on what's out there and hunt done an uptodate sat tp/freq list that I can load.

Thanks again.

What channels and satellites do you get the "guide" on?

I just confirmed the guide data was from 110 (check zap2it guide). I had picked it up during my setup (after I did a factory reset of the receiver trying to get motor and receiver in-sync). So I saw the leftovers guide bits when I was moving around on t-5 or g10r. So it was a false alarm. me bad.

some of the channels on IA5 have a guide for some odd reason...of course its in some oddball language

jmanng said:

Ok, we're in business .

I was quickly able to locate 91 with the circular lnb by setting the elevation to desired value subtracting 22.7 from the stamped scale (I set a temporary reference point). I then swapped in the linear lnb and was able to lock in amc-5., tweaked for best signal and got a picture up in no time. I then used a permanent marker to set a true south reference point on the pole (it was about 10 degrees from where I was thinking it was).

I then moved onto getting the motor setup. With the reference point now setup, it didn't take long. I ran outta time so I wasn't able to tune the east/west sats (or even look for them), as it was already dark by the time I finished the motor setup and playing with a few issues that I ran into... I'll have to sort them out:

1. the clamping force of the dish bracket wasn't enough to keep the dish from moving with a little bit of applied force on the motor shaft. I ended up overtighting the bolt... backed it off a little bit so it was onto better thread section and tighten the other side. I can also see the metal bracket colapsing when tighting - so I doubt I'll ever get enough grab with this hardware.
- I'm thinking of drilling a hole through the back of the bracket and into the motor shaft (it's hollow) and using a self tapping screw to keep the two locked together.

2. The darn motor or receiver is stuck on the keeping the wrong position for amc-5. I've told the receiver/motor to re-sync a number of times after I've used receiver to get the motor back to 0... also used manual adjustments through receiver and then set function... but it always go back to the initial location it has for the satellite. Atleast I can use goto 0 function to get it back centered again. I'm not sure if it's the motor or receiver that's at fault. I'm kinda suspecting receiver as I tried blowing away the antenna setup, but that also seems to be coming back. I can also try the motor reset procedure (didn't have a small enough wire to do it, otherwise I would have done that too).

3. I was issuing motor commands and their seems to be very little synchronization/motor control between motor and receiver. Often as it was spinning off to the wrong location for amc-5, I was issuing 'stop' or 'move west' commands and it simply ignored those commands. Othertimes it seemed it queued them until it got to the target location and then reacted. A few times it also interpret them as go full west because it had queued up a few individual go west commands. Is this typical for these motors? Does the sg2100 have better synchronization? I 'm most likely stuck with this motor at this stage (and especially if I start drilling a hole into the shaft), but If the sg2100 is that much better, it'll be worth a try to see if I can swap (there was only a few dollars difference).

Any comments or other recommendations on these issues?

Thanks,

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I purchased exactly the same dish but not motor at all and I had exactly the same problem, it was hard to get any signal o quality, to start, this dish does not have the elevation indicator therefore you have to find something from home depot that will help you finde the angle of the elevation. In my opinion these DigiWave products are BS, I also bought a DigiWave sattellite finder, the instruction is very poor and there is not support whatsoever. Good Luck my friend.