Advice Needed Motor Recommendations

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I keep having issues with my Technomate TM-2600 M2 Motor. I purchased roughly a year back from eBay in brand new condition and it went up around July time. Since December it's been problematic (thus, leading to a few threads from me). At first it kept resetting the 'zero' point, and I then had to manually reset the motor a few times.

After about 3 or 4 of times of doing that, it was stuck on the orange light and was not moving at all. I found a thread from another forum about a user who had the same issue and he rectified it by first disconnecting and then reconnecting the daughter board. This solved the issue for me and its been back up for about 4/5 weeks now.

Now its gone back to the first error, and thinks the 'zero' point is 20e. I assume I have a dodgy unit and rather than attempting to keep on fiddling with it, I would rather just buy something new. I would appreciate any recommendations. Most of the motors I have seen going around are second hand. I am tempted to get another Technomate as on the odd chance a new one pops up here and there. However, if anyone knows of a better motors, (preferably brand new) I would really appreciate that.

I have a 1m Kathrein Dish, about 7kg in weight. If I ever upgrade, it would most likely be to something like a Laminas 1.2m, which has a similar weight. It is about 7 feet of the ground.

Thanks

 

[Manikm909]

well - i still have my Laminas, a dark motor and tm2600 gathering dust.
u could try going down the 36v route, with a Jaegar SMR99G H-H style motor - i have one of those too!

 

[Offtensive]

Your laminas is tempting, but you're just too far unfortunately.

With the Jaeger, could that be powered by an Octagon SF8008? Also, I guess I would need to use Diseqc 1.2 with that rather than USALS?

 

[jeallen01]

Your laminas is tempting, but you're just too far unfortunately.

With the Jaeger, could that be powered by an Octagon SF8008? Also, I guess I would need to use Diseqc 1.2 with that rather than USALS?

No, Jaeger and similar "Horizon-to-Horizon" ("H2H") motors like it are 36V 4/5 wire only and not DiSEqC, and so would need a V-box to interface between the box and the motor.

 

[Offtensive]

Are V-boxes wired using normal 4/5 core electric cable?

Also, does any one how I can search for v-box information on here? I keep on getting the below error, thanks.

1. The following words were not included in your search because they are too short, too long, or too common: v, box

 

[Manikm909]

Any 4 core flex will do from tool station or u might get away with cheaper 4 core alarm cable

 

[ozumo]

Also, does any one how I can search for v-box information on here? I keep on getting the below error, thanks.

1. The following words were not included in your search because they are too short, too long, or too common: v, box

Using an asterix instead of a dash, along with quotation marks seems to work:

"V*Box"

https://www.satellites.co.uk/search/96446/?q=%22V%2ABox%22&t=post&o=date

 

[jeallen01]

Any 4 core flex will do from tool station or u might get away with cheaper 4 core alarm cable

In the "old days" (the early '90's!) it was recommended to use screened 4-core to try to avoid external interference affecting the position-sensing signals generated in the motor to tell the Rx the angular direction in which it (and thus the dish) was pointing - I know that because that's what was supplied with the steerable H2H motor NEC 5000 system I bought & installed in 1991!

OTOH, I've not seen that recommendation being repeated often/at all in the last few years - maybe because it was found that such interference wasn't actually a real problem, because "any old" non-screened cable was much cheaper, &/or because H2H motor systems have been almost completely superceeded by DiSEqC motor systems ?????

 

[purplemarina]

I've all ways used non screened cables with out any problems, just used standard 4 core cable from electrical supplier.

 

[jeallen01]

I've all ways used non screened cables with out any problems, just used standard 4 core cable from electrical supplier.

I'm glad to hear that as the old screened cable was difficult to source and very expensive!

 

[jeallen01]

I'm glad to hear that as the old screened cable was difficult to source and very expensive!"

Edited:
PS: Particularly with that cable, I'd advise not running it anywhere near mains or other power cables to avoid any chance of interference being cross-coupled - OTOH if that has to be done, then the motor cable should run across the power cable(s) at 90 deg to minimise the cross-coupling.