BUD with V-Box

[easily confused]

No, the sledge is just a figure of speech, bud. Did go out and pulled the back off of the actuator, took the spare Von Weise out and connected it and still getting Er2 so I doubt it's the actuator. Now down to either the cable or connections on the V-Box and we have tried connections so many times I am sure we have got them tight. Now to try to located the spare ribbon cable. I put it away so I wouldn't lose it. Well, you guessed it.....I have forgotten where it is so I need to get some cable to try that solution.

[easily confused]

Well, I guess there is no need to test the other cable. The V-Box was on the arm of the couch and my dog jumped up tipped it over.....voila it started working. Now I need to start over and get the dish set up again. Two trees to cut and then start over. Guess it must still have been the darn connections.

[easily confused]

One more question. Whenever I have had a V-Box connected to my receiver and BUD, I have always had the "switch" set to Motor. As it stands, right now, if I put the switch to Disceq, I can get a dead solid lock on 99% signal strength and get the same if I set the switch to USALS. However, if I set it to "motor" The signal strength jumps from 0 to 99 repeatedly. Any ideas?

[Guest]

It's been a while since I had a vbox so I don't think I could help you out EC. I would go with what works EC, as long as it doesn't effect the movement of your dish and the vbox moves it as a stand alone positioner.

[ViP3R]

One more question. Whenever I have had a V-Box connected to my receiver and BUD, I have always had the "switch" set to Motor. As it stands, right now, if I put the switch to Disceq, I can get a dead solid lock on 99% signal strength and get the same if I set the switch to USALS. However, if I set it to "motor" The signal strength jumps from 0 to 99 repeatedly. Any ideas?

Well, it has to be set to motor otherwise it won't move...USALS is not going to work on a C-band..

Motor should be set to DiSEqC1.2 under motor controls, not sure what box your using though, so you could post your settings and get some feedback that way.

[easily confused]

OooooooooooooooooooooooooooK!!! This getting more frustrating than going to the fridge and finding no beer and realizing that Shepp has been to my place. I have checked and rechecked but still nothing, so looking to confirm a few things. My elevation is supposed to be 37.5 with a declination of 6.81 so I have set my elevation at 44.3....correct????? By running the actuator back and forth I have located the high point and then pointed the dish to south with a magnetic deviation set to 190 degrees. Getting signal strength of 84% but can't get a blip of Q. Now, if I use the formula for focal length I get a reading 34.3" ((90 X 90) / (16 X 14.75- depth of the dish)) = 8100/236 =34.3. Here comes an issue. I can't install the LNB at 34.3 because it will be out of the mount. The best I can get is 33.5. Now, the old BSC 621 was mounted closer than the current 621-2d and worked, so any suggestions......other than open beer because I have already tried that and it hasn't helped. Well, it hasn't reception, although I feel better.

[ViP3R]

You have me a little lost EC... Unless I missed something I thought all you were doing was replacing the V-Box..If your C-Band dish was set right before and I know it was then why the need to change things?

[easily confused]

After replacing the V-Box nothing seemed to be right. Could not find any Q signal on any sat at all. Started looking and it seems that either I was out of whack all along or something was changed so I have basically started over as in a new installation. New LNB because I was getting 0 signal strength on the old 621 after the lightning hit.