motor alignment question

[k.r.]

ok...i read the how to stickie...my question is on the dish motor shaft..is it talking about the final part of the shaft or the begining of the shaft??being plumb.... a wind storm moved my dish...and im not doing too good on setting it back up....i got it dead on on the east and west movement but the elevation and skew is off on everything...but other than haveing to go outside to move the elevation i got everything recieveing exelent.. 43 deg to 119 deg


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How to Set up your motor.
If you have a motorized antenna.
perezcuco
July 11th, 2006
FTA Dish Motor alignment


1. Find out your Latitude and Longitude (i found mine online by entering my postal code)
2. Use a level and make sure your dish mounting pole is plumb.....this is important, take the time, be fussy and get it plumb.
3. Mount the dish motor, so that the dish motor shaft is vertically plumb (use a level).
4. make sure the motor shaft is in the ZERO (center) position
5. Mount the dish to the motor shaft
6. Go to WWW.LYNGSAT.COM and find a Bird thats close to your Longitude. my longitude was 80.........so i picked AMC5 which is 79
7. Aim the dish, use the dish to adjust for Elevation (dont adjust the motors evelevation....leave it vertically plumb), Losen the motor mount bolts to adjust the dish from side to side(be sure the motor shaft stays in the ZERO position), adjust to get the best signal quality possible for the Bird that corresponds to your Longitutde.
8. Once locked on, tighten everything up.
9. Now if you use USALS with your receiver you should be able to hit everything you aim for. This method has worked for me and im able to move to 11 birds with no trouble or fine tunning using USALS with a 33" dish.

Note: if you cant find a Bird that bang on to you Longitude.......find the one that is closest to it.

Most recomend that you adjust your Elevation using a combination of the dish and the motor together to achieve the desired Elevation . This method is more complicated and tricky and not necessary........if your pole is plumb and your motor shaft is vertically plumb you will get desireable results

[k.r.]

ok..i think im haven internal motor problems...my goto referance is not going to the zero...its going to 20...i hit reset a bazillion times...anyone have this problem...even if i move it to the far east or west it still goes to 20 as the refrance....i have it up and tracking all locations just fine now but referance is off....any idea how to fix that? im not too worryd now that its trackn...just more courious if its on its way out or what

[Meme127]

I am also having problems with my motor the green light will not stay on. It goes from yellow to green then right back to yellow. and the screw keeps popping out I screw it in and it is tight but when it moves and that is very seldom it pops right out. Any one know what I am doing wrong let me know please.