[vdr] Re: motorised disk

["Conrad Micallef" <conrad@waldonet.net.mt>]

Hello Thomas,

Cable is about 20-25M and it is straight - (without any inter-connectors)

Vertical polarisation implies 13V

I have tried patching the vdr to send 18V before the diseq command, but
still it fails and immediately after the channel switch the rotor "clicks"
and then the led on the rotor switches off - showing that there is not
enough power. Plugging in the Nokia instead gives me enough power to handle
things.

By any chance would you know if there are "amplifiers" one can use which
give the extra boost - unless a patch to the board fixes it ?

Conrad
----- Original Message -----
From: "Thomas Bergwinkl" <Thomas.Bergwinkl@t-online.de>
To: <vdr@linuxtv.org>
Sent: Sunday, February 15, 2004 6:57 PM
Subject: [vdr] Re: motorised disk


> Hallo,
>
> my rotor is also working on my rev 1.3 and my Nexus-S. But some users
> have reported about problems, when switched to vertical polarization and
> trying to drive the motor. How long is your cable from the dvb-card to
> the motor? When your card can't supply enough power for rotating the
> dish, then only commands like store, recalc, ... would work. (You wrote
> about some recalculation)
>
> Thomas
>
>
>
> > I did some further tests, and it is evident that the card is
> > cutting power
> > to the rotor.
> >
> > Does anyone knwo some small tweak I can use to de-sensitise
> > the current
> > sensing loop - and allow it to give me a little more ?
> >
>
> >
> > > On Sunday 15 February 2004 13:20, Conrad Micallef wrote:
> > > > I have been following the discussion before on setting up
> > a motorised
> > dish
> > > > but I was unsuccessful with my attempt.
> > > >
> > > > I am using a Technotrend PCI card rev 1.3 - and I cannot
> > get diseqc
> > rotor
> > > > to work properly.
> > > >
> > > > My setup is a SG-2100 rotor.
> > > >
> > > > From the nokia 9600 I can manually go to the setup and change disk
> > position
> > > > - i was hoping that setting up vdr would give me easier
> > rotation, but
> > after
> > > > setting proper diseqc.conf and enabling diseqc and using
> > rotor 0.5 the
> > dish
> > > > does not move, but actually when reconnecting it back to
> > the nokia, it
> > > > seems to have done some recalculate automatically, and I
> > have to give it
> > > > goto 0 and re-align it from the remote control.
> > > >
> > > > Any ideas ?
> > > >
> > > > is the rev 1.3 perhaps too old to support diseqc motors ?
> > - it heats up
> > > > quite a lot !!
> > >
> > > Works nicely here with a Hauppauge (Technotrend) 1.3, a
> > Stab HH-120 rotor
> > and
> > > vdr-1.3.4.
> > > Check your settings (diseqc.conf, rotor-plugin, LNB) again!
> > > As my dish is sufficiently well alligned to the south I
> > position directly
> > via
> > > the "goto xy". Make also sure, that the settings for your
> > location in the
> > > rotor plugin are correct. Entries  for longitude and
> > lattitude are thought
> > of
> > > having 1 figure after the decimal point e.g my longitude
> > here is 9.2 -> 92
> > > and my lattitude here is 48.08 -> 481.
> > >
> > > Gerd Arlitt
> > >
> > >
> > >
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