Do Humax have built in USALS?

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Sorry if this is a daft question but I am looking to buy a Humax for my motorised dish system. However a 'knowledgeable' friend has told me I will need a separate dish mover as Humax do not have one built in. (I don't believe him but better safe than sorry).
 

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I have a Humax Foxsat and a Humax Foxsat HDR.

They are both USALS capable.

One of mine is used with a Motor and the other with multiple LNBs.
 

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Thank you very much Tivù I understand I have to input my location (which I have). I believe I also have to set my 'limits'. How do I find out what limits to enter? Your help much appreciated.
 

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Those are software limits, and I haven't set any.

They are just an additional feature to make sure your dish cannot be driven to the point of crashing in to a wall! I make do with the hardware limits on the motor alone.

It isn't very instinctive to figure out how to drive the Humax, and I'm afraid I would find it very hard to give you instructions, so the best you can do (and also the most worthwhile thing) is to play around.

The DiSEqC/USALS features are not the primary selling point for Freesat Products, so I suspect in the case of the Humax they are a legacy from their adaptation form similar Humax kit sold elsewhere in the world.

It took me a while to learn how to drive it properly, but once set up it's fine.

Don't forget you cannot get into the full non-freesat mode to enable other Satellites etc until you've first done a non-freesat scan on 28E: Best advice I can give is to confine that scan to the Sky News Transponder alone - not only is Sky News not available in Freesat mode, so is a useful one to have in your non-freesat list, but restricting the scan will seriously reduce the amount of channel editing (ie Deletion!) you'd otherwise have to do. And the scan fulfils the pre-condition for being able to use the Red Green Yellow Blue Green Yellow Blue sequence for accessing full non-freesat mode.
 

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Thanks once again Tivù - your help appreciated. I will certainly follow your suggestions. Brian
 
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