dish mover only moves one direction

[lmoore]

I am having problems with my dish mover. It will only move to the west and I can't get it to move to the east. I moved it all the way to the west and now I have reach the limit to the west and it says I reached the limit to the east. The dish is pointing towards the west. I tried to set my limits on the dish but it would only go west. Why does the mover not want to go the other direction?

 

[richyrich]

I am having problems with my dish mover. It will only move to the west and I can't get it to move to the east. I moved it all the way to the west and now I have reach the limit to the west and it says I reached the limit to the east. The dish is pointing towards the west. I tried to set my limits on the dish but it would only go west. Why does the mover not want to go the other direction?

It seems that your motor's 24vdc wires to your box are backwards, making the dish move east when you press west?
When you first setup "your dish mover", some dish positioners require you to set limits, and it sounds like you set the software west limit.
Also, of motors outside at the dish, if you have twisted the arm manually, you can "move beyond the physical limit switch" and then it will move west but not east. Say you have programmed the software limit there, then it would not move east because of the motors physical sw limit. This would mean the wires are correct.

With the wires backwards, making it go east would make the dish try to move west, which is at a software limit that it cannot count to, and the count would move in the right direction to move it east, but would try to move east, hitting the physical limit sw at the motor.

If you are hitting a motors physical limit switch, the way to fix it is outside at the dish. Remove the bolt holding the end of the arm. If the west limit is all the way in (short arm), make the arm longer by twisting it manually until it is 2" longer; if it is extended, twist the arm in making it about 2" shorter. You should here the limit switch "click" when you go past it, in either direction, and if you take the cover off where the wires enter it, you should see the 2 limit switches, one for extreme east, the other for west.

At the very least, clear the memory of the positioner, and do not set limits until you verify that it moves east and west like it is supposed to.

 

[lmoore]

how do I clear the memory of the positioner in a 4dtv receiver?

How do I clear the memory of the positioner in a 4dtv receiver?

 

[Pixl]

How do I clear the memory of the positioner in a 4dtv receiver?

Use the positioner controls or the remote, if any, that came with the positioner .

Jim