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<blockquote data-quote="aceb" data-source="post: 1073241" data-attributes="member: 268811">Lets me clear that presumption up seeing as I did the LNB swap! The closest I came to the motor was about 50CM below it and below some original insulating tape holding it to the pole when I replaced the knackered and brittle single run of coax with two new runs for the replacement LNB. The motor cable also showed signs of age but not once did it fail during testing of the new LNB driving it between 26E and 10E. He might want to check the condition of it where it's bent at 90° and run through a hole in the window frame.The only discrepancy was on the skew because Dave requested I peak the signal on the Eumetsat data on 10E, peak SNR had the LNB skewed about 5° anti clock from where it should be.I have no idea why it stopped working after I left with Dave happy with theresults although in a series of one sentence emails later in the day he said the motor hadn't moved when it should but a full reset cured it. Then more emails saying Astra was down, then 26E 'nothing' but that all turned out to be the signal meter he was using. So since yesterday afternoon I've been answering his emails with the same questions (and answers) as I'm seeing here. To recap my advice, put a voltmeter on 1 and 2 of the positioner output and see if you can see a brief output. Connect a 12V 3A power supply to the motor cables and see if the motor turns. I'd also meter out the motor cables to see what resistance there is between them. Or maybe I should just leave it to the experts at SSS who have diagnosed it as a faulty reed switch.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="aceb, post: 1073241, member: 268811"] Lets me clear that presumption up seeing as I did the LNB swap! The closest I came to the motor was about 50CM below it and below some original insulating tape holding it to the pole when I replaced the knackered and brittle single run of coax with two new runs for the replacement LNB. The motor cable also showed signs of age but not once did it fail during testing of the new LNB driving it between 26E and 10E. He might want to check the condition of it where it's bent at 90° and run through a hole in the window frame. The only discrepancy was on the skew because Dave requested I peak the signal on the Eumetsat data on 10E, peak SNR had the LNB skewed about 5° anti clock from where it should be. I have no idea why it stopped working after I left with Dave happy with theresults although in a series of one sentence emails later in the day he said the motor hadn't moved when it should but a full reset cured it. Then more emails saying Astra was down, then 26E 'nothing' but that all turned out to be the signal meter he was using. So since yesterday afternoon I've been answering his emails with the same questions (and answers) as I'm seeing here. To recap my advice, put a voltmeter on 1 and 2 of the positioner output and see if you can see a brief output. Connect a 12V 3A power supply to the motor cables and see if the motor turns. I'd also meter out the motor cables to see what resistance there is between them. Or maybe I should just leave it to the experts at SSS who have diagnosed it as a faulty reed switch. [/QUOTE]

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