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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ArloG" data-source="post: 1164455" data-attributes="member: 418555">Completely amazed at the forethought of your design. Not only TVS but varistors too.I did a similar TVS protection on the ASC1. Tacked them to the traces and used adhesive pad strips to ground. Solder masked them in.I was so giddy when the "LNB IS Short" message went away and my benched gearbox ran, that I put it back together and bolted the case shut.Didn't even snap photos.I have a few more to work on. One displays a motor short message. Another with a dead mcu and comparitors. No schematic.So pulling diodes to check it they are Zener, Schottky and getting the values or if they are done. A bit of schematic scribbling. You know. Not asking for great details here because that could get lengthy. Did you have a board populating service do the work?Have you really made your very last one? Besides Brian, have you tried marketing them to others such as satellitedish.com or Ricks Satellite?How many have you built and sold and are failure rates/warranty claims common? Found, and addressed?If you were to ponder the attachment. What are chances a transcoder could be coded for an Arduino style of interface with multi line display?Not every command would need to be implemented. Go-to, polarity, error detection. If entries needed to be added in the config file for satellite names the end user could edit. Page 79 would be where I went. Then navigate around to the various sections.These commercial dish controls are readily available if you look on places like eBay. From azimuth only to az/el capable.I have contacted the manufacturer. And a few of the still active software vendors. Nobody supports the DISEqC protocol.So folks who buy them are usually getting up and pressing the buttons on them the move their dishes.I have an Arduino library set for a stand alone dish mover using DISEqC commands form a receiver.</blockquote>

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