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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
Zeroing a motor - Does it matter?
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<blockquote data-quote="Chris91" data-source="post: 1109842" data-attributes="member: 414028"><p>Lots of replies guys, thanks!</p><p></p><p>First of all I should say that I installed this last summer and it was absolutely brilliant. I was getting stuff that the internet led me to believe was impossible on an 80CM dish. Ever since we had that really cold weather and the snow (in UK) it stopped picking up some stuff and getting pixilation here and there. Something somewhere was off.</p><p></p><p>I just finished up redoing it (for the 3rd time in a week). Instead of trying to be clever with maths and digital spirit levels, this time I just set all of the angles like I did the first time, using the cast marks. The pole is ~89.9 degrees, so within the margin of error for my level (digi-pass pocket). I am doing a scan now and its picking stuff up, whether or not I have everything that I did have... I wont know for a very long time because I wiped all of the scan data and I am starting over.</p><p></p><p>Something I noticed (that I seem to remember from before) is that the motor looks like it was at 42.0 when my software told it to go to 39.0. Not sure if that's a motor issue or a software issue. I use TVHeadend and USALS and here are my settings...</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]135587[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>The motor is a Technomate one and everything I found online suggests the speed is [ICODE]1.9° per second at13V; 2.5 per second at 18V[/ICODE]</p><p>I then used someone else's maths [ICODE]1 / 25 = 0.4 seconds per degree multiplied by 1000 to change to milliseconds giving me a value of 400[/ICODE] to get the 400 value.</p><p></p><p>I wonder if the motor or software could be a little off? The software has been updated a few times since the first install.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Chris91, post: 1109842, member: 414028"] Lots of replies guys, thanks! First of all I should say that I installed this last summer and it was absolutely brilliant. I was getting stuff that the internet led me to believe was impossible on an 80CM dish. Ever since we had that really cold weather and the snow (in UK) it stopped picking up some stuff and getting pixilation here and there. Something somewhere was off. I just finished up redoing it (for the 3rd time in a week). Instead of trying to be clever with maths and digital spirit levels, this time I just set all of the angles like I did the first time, using the cast marks. The pole is ~89.9 degrees, so within the margin of error for my level (digi-pass pocket). I am doing a scan now and its picking stuff up, whether or not I have everything that I did have... I wont know for a very long time because I wiped all of the scan data and I am starting over. Something I noticed (that I seem to remember from before) is that the motor looks like it was at 42.0 when my software told it to go to 39.0. Not sure if that's a motor issue or a software issue. I use TVHeadend and USALS and here are my settings... [ATTACH type="full" alt="1617724055028.png"]135587[/ATTACH] The motor is a Technomate one and everything I found online suggests the speed is [ICODE]1.9° per second at13V; 2.5 per second at 18V[/ICODE] I then used someone else's maths [ICODE]1 / 25 = 0.4 seconds per degree multiplied by 1000 to change to milliseconds giving me a value of 400[/ICODE] to get the 400 value. I wonder if the motor or software could be a little off? The software has been updated a few times since the first install. [/QUOTE]
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