I know there was a thread on this about six years ago, but all the photos have been removed...
I have an old 9120 HH motor and a current DG380 HH motor that is probably about to suffer the same fate. The motors seem to have some sort of artificially set "limit" that was not programmed in. I'll give you an example with my current motor. It works fine in one direction (say 83 to 125 W) but will stop at around 80W going east (and 83W is my true south sat, so when it started doing this 30 minutes ago, I can no longer get the eastern satellites). Yes, it does this with both STBs, so the fault is at the motor. I'm going to try to do a motor reset at the DG380 tomorrow when it's light again with the coax disconnect, press both buttons, etc etc. A reset at the motor on the 9120 model didn't work the last time I tried it. A month or two ago, the DG380 failed completely and replacing the LNB solved it (I didn't realize that would affect the motor operation). Anyway, I fear I may soon have two unusable motors. I always use USALS, but even manual operation yields no results.
All of this to say that I'd like to see a walk through of how to disable the mechanical/hardware limits inside the motor as discussed in this thread: http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/sg2100-locked-all-the-way-east.238865/
I do have an sg2100 too, that came with an unwanted dish, but I don't recall it ever working at all. I'd like to get some hands on learning with these unused motors, and hopefully get them working again. I'm still holding out hope that my trusty DG380 will pull through in the morning.
Thanks for your help!
I have an old 9120 HH motor and a current DG380 HH motor that is probably about to suffer the same fate. The motors seem to have some sort of artificially set "limit" that was not programmed in. I'll give you an example with my current motor. It works fine in one direction (say 83 to 125 W) but will stop at around 80W going east (and 83W is my true south sat, so when it started doing this 30 minutes ago, I can no longer get the eastern satellites). Yes, it does this with both STBs, so the fault is at the motor. I'm going to try to do a motor reset at the DG380 tomorrow when it's light again with the coax disconnect, press both buttons, etc etc. A reset at the motor on the 9120 model didn't work the last time I tried it. A month or two ago, the DG380 failed completely and replacing the LNB solved it (I didn't realize that would affect the motor operation). Anyway, I fear I may soon have two unusable motors. I always use USALS, but even manual operation yields no results.
All of this to say that I'd like to see a walk through of how to disable the mechanical/hardware limits inside the motor as discussed in this thread: http://www.satelliteguys.us/xen/threads/sg2100-locked-all-the-way-east.238865/
I do have an sg2100 too, that came with an unwanted dish, but I don't recall it ever working at all. I'd like to get some hands on learning with these unused motors, and hopefully get them working again. I'm still holding out hope that my trusty DG380 will pull through in the morning.
Thanks for your help!