thinking of motorising a fixed system

[jazzmanthe]

Think the title says it all!

I'm currently using a vision 20' kit to cover 28, 19, 13 & 9E, but am looking to widen the scope of things.

I have thought of getting another vision kit to cover 26, 23 & 16 E, but am wondering if I should just bit the bullet and go fully motorised.

Thus I am looking for some opinions, view etc of this, plus your thoughts or recommendations on kit to do this and what sats/ channels from 4E eastwards (sorry, nothing west, location of house) are of interest.

Cheers

John

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

Your missing out on 1west..the best package there by far!

[jazzmanthe]

Your missing out on 1west..the best package there by far!

I might be able to push this in with a motorised system, but I don't think I would be able to go any further.

I was thinking of a Techomate TM-2300 kit. Does anyone have any experience of it in use or setting it up?

[Philthy]

Your missing out on 1west..the best package there by far!

I agree with Sadiq. Thor really is worth trying for.

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

the tm2300 motor is top...very quick and accurate!

[satelliteman]

Motorised route with a decent 1M (given your location) should give a good selection of the usual satellites. The TM2300 are ok. Installing is fairly straight forward as long as you follow the most basic steps.

[jazzmanthe]

Have ordered a tm2300 motor which will be glued onto the existing orbital 1m dish. Getting some professional (of the satellite kind!) help this time round.

Will let you know how it goes.

[jazzmanthe]

Well, finally got the motor and place with a lot of help. Also managed to pick up 0.8/1 W (on the meter) by chipping a bit out of the wall to allow the dish to turn that far! I have stopped for the day, as I've had to return the meter for determining the position.

However, I have encountered some interesting bits and pieces. The speed of positioning is great and its fun watch the TM6900 report the bad signal, which then creeps up to lock upon as the dish get to the right beam.

There are a few bits in getting the satellites to list though. I'm having to add the satellite, move to the motor, manually position the dish and then run a scan before the position is accepted in the sat list. Is this what other have found? I had hoped that if you selected the sat from the list, the TM would have positioned the dish accordingly and you only had to perform fine tuning.

The major question I have is to do with 0.8/1W The TM does not list then separately, but just has a 1W position. Does anyone know if I select this if it covered them both?

Thanks

John

[jazzmanthe]

Just a wee bit of a further update to say I am rapidly loosing my hair with this thing. Currently experiencing major problems with the motor/ receiver "not speaking" for the want of a better term.

The problem is that the receiver displays a message saying that it is moving the dish to the new position/ sat, but no actual movement occurs. After a few moments another display of "no audio/ video" comes up. The motor will not return the reference position, nor does a "soft" reset do anything. Its a call to my installer to climb up the ladder (I've popped my back, so cann't help) to manually return the dish to zero and perform a hard reset to the motor. Also tried a new cable in case of shorts.


Anybody got any useful ideas, or should I think about going back to the multi lnb setup?

[krazylegz]

The major question I have is to do with 0.8/1W The TM does not list then separately, but just has a 1W position. Does anyone know if I select this if it covered them both?

Thanks

John

yes m8 1w is correct

Just a wee bit of a further update to say I am rapidly loosing my hair with this thing. Currently experiencing major problems with the motor/ receiver "not speaking" for the want of a better term.

The problem is that the receiver displays a message saying that it is moving the dish to the new position/ sat, but no actual movement occurs. After a few moments another display of "no audio/ video" comes up. The motor will not return the reference position, nor does a "soft" reset do anything. Its a call to my installer to climb up the ladder (I've popped my back, so cann't help) to manually return the dish to zero and perform a hard reset to the motor. Also tried a new cable in case of shorts.


Anybody got any useful ideas, or should I think about going back to the multi lnb setup?

how have you set this up??

by USALS??
by DISEQC?

if usals have you entered correct long/lat settings in receiver

new coax etc?

[.: JaCkPoT :.]

use usals and enter your long lat...

[jazzmanthe]

Thanks to all for the replies

I went to try to apply your suggestions, this morning after walking the dog, only to find everything working/ talking fine, not a hiccup. Swung between 1W to 28E and other than a wee bit of fine tuning, all is well. Completely different to all the other time when it stopped working, needing the hard reset to begin again.

So, "if it an't broke, do try to fix it!" comes to mind at the moment. I'm going to see about programming in some more east sat this evening, so we'll see what happens then!

[jazzmanthe]

Just another update to say that I seem to have managed to kill the system again!

It does appear the problem is connected to programming additional satellites in, but I have no idea what is causing it.

Have spoken to the suppliers who have requested that I perform another hard reset before they would accept it back for "evaluation"! So much for the fact its less than 3 weeks since I bought it and its never worked a full day. However, I'm going to do EXACTLY what they ask, as I'm a terrible lier and more than likely would say that I haven't if they asked.

I did try the suggestions given previously by SaDiQ999uK & krazylegz to see if they would help, without any success. The motor remained stuck in it's useless position.