SonicView 4000 & Dish Motor

[DirectDishNet]

Okay, Bad day at the ranch today.
I have a Mercury II receiver and a HH motor all set up and was working great. No problems there.

But the other day a customer of mine gave me a sonicview 4000 as a trade for a couple dish's I had. I was excited to get it home and plug it in to my motorized dish so I did just that.

The first thing I did was set the USALS up on 97W since that is where the dish was already aimed. I set the long/lat and that was that. I downloaded all of the channels on the 97 (116 of them) Then I went to set up the USALS on G10R pressed the "go to position" button and nothing....... The dish did not move. So like an idiot I pressed the "move west" botton. Sure enough the dish moved west but didn't stop. Hooked up Mercury II back up and moved the dish to G10R and everything was fine again.

Bottom line, The Sonicview will not move the motor to positions.

Anyone else have any problems with sonicviews? or know what I did wrong?

 

[stogie5150]

Okay, Bad day at the ranch today.
I have a Mercury II receiver and a HH motor all set up and was working great. No problems there.

But the other day a customer of mine gave me a sonicview 4000 as a trade for a couple dish's I had. I was excited to get it home and plug it in to my motorized dish so I did just that.

The first thing I did was set the USALS up on 97W since that is where the dish was already aimed. I set the long/lat and that was that. I downloaded all of the channels on the 97 (116 of them) Then I went to set up the USALS on G10R pressed the "go to position" button and nothing....... The dish did not move. So like an idiot I pressed the "move west" botton. Sure enough the dish moved west but didn't stop. Hooked up Mercury II back up and moved the dish to G10R and everything was fine again.

Bottom line, The Sonicview will not move the motor to positions.

Anyone else have any problems with sonicviews? or know what I did wrong?

Yep, USALS on my 4000 I had was broken. Only way it would work is to use 1.2 and store each position one at a time. After I did that it stayed bang on for as long as I had it.

If I used USALS mine did the same thing...moved all the way west and stopped. I had a motor serviced because I thought the motor was at fault. It wasn't.

 

[DirectDishNet]

so when you did the 1.2 did you get the motor to swing to the desired position? (i'm lost)

 

[stogie5150]

so when you did the 1.2 did you get the motor to swing to the desired position? (i'm lost)

Yeah, sorry....

That's how I did it, factory reset the receiver and set it up ONLY with disecq 1.2, don't use USALS at all IIRC. After it went wild on me is when I got rid of it, not knowing if it was the motor or the receiver.

Dang shame too I liked it very much, I've had about 15 different receivers in the year or so I have been in the FTA universe, and the SV-4000 is second only behind the Coolsat 5000. It had great blindscan, remote was laid out nice, I really liked it, it was just flaky with a motor.

The guy that bought it was only wanting it because it had good 'support'. I let him have it.

 

[DirectDishNet]

thanks, I don't see an options for diseqc 1.2 in mine....

 

[stogie5150]

thanks, I don't see an options for diseqc 1.2 in mine....

Its been so long I don't remember just how exactly I did it...sorry I can't give you more info...

 

[DirectDishNet]

Thats okay.No......I think I'm just goint to stick it on craigslist if it is going to be a pain.

Thanks very much!!

 

[brentb636]

I believe you have 3 choices for the motor ( in the antenna setup screen )
1. Disabled
2. motor
3. USALS

Number 2 is Diseqc 1.2 mode.
In the SV-1000, you use USALS screen to get to satellite needed. Then when you have quality, you hit the red button to save the position. That works okay on the SV-1000 and Buzz. If the 4000 is like the 1000, it uses Diseqc 1.2 mode to go from position to position ( you'll notice, I think, that the mode will not stay in USALS, it always goes back to motor. You will have to save a position for each of your sats. Hopefully it will work from there.