Ok, so using some backup wires helped a little but is still not reliable enough.
I must also say that when I operate the motor with the G-box there are absolutely no motor errors, it goes and goes and goes..
Apparently is is more tolerant of this mysterious motor noise thing.
Brian at Titanium explained it to me and it’s a rather complex problem but he put it in a way I could relate to,
like back in the 70’s when you would hear this horrible whine in your car radio. So this is something like that.
Now the next step is to try the capacitor fix.
I found a few old things like an old 8-track tape player that I’ll probably never use again that I opened and looked in for a part.
But all the parts are marked with numbers and letters I don’t understand. I found some other mysterious electronic castaways
of unknown origins and function.
So I googled for pictures of a .01 uf capacitor as called for in the help file.
One of them took me to an ebay auction which claims to be selling such a critter but in a quantity far above any normal person would ever need.
But the main thing is, it showed me what the markings should be as I go on an impossible scavenger hunt through old castaway electronics long forgotten.
There are probably some old radios and computers in my son’s old room and who knows what in the garage or the storage shed.
So I’m looking for little discs marked 103. I’m not planning on buying thousands of these things on ebay so no worries.
I’ll just keep digging until I find one in something I’ve already got here.
Yep. I just found something that confirms the markings I’m looking for..
Also yesterday I removed the 3x4 I had on my BUD and ran a single wire from it into the 4x1 so it can select either the LNBF of the KU or the C-band dishes.
I’ve removed extra and unnecessary stuff. It’s my new BS Reduction and Simplification Policy.
What I do not understand is that somehow over the past few days, I’ve lost MeTV from 101.
I haven’t touched the LNBF or changed the dish in any way other than moving it east and west via the motor.
It has gotten MeTV for like 2 years flawlessly and now it’s suddenly gone.
I am picking up Movies! and all the religious channels on 101 but no MeTV at all. Even my meter doesn’t see it so it’s not anything to do with the STB.
Unless somehow the 4x1 switch is killing that one signal. I guess I will have to disconnect the switch and connect the meter in it’s place. I know the dish is peaked on 101 right now.
Nothing else I can do tonight with it so I’m going to see how the USALS motor is working now that I’ve taken a lot of junk out of the system
and it’s passing through the ASC-1 now.
