[VU+ Duo] Problem moving dish

[stevesom]

yes tuner A controlling the dish and tuner B set as tuner A, B not recording i took my tuner config before updating as advised,its pink when i try to change to a different satellite channel,just done a scan on 30 west with tuner A and its still the same but i didnt clear before the scan

 

[basilyoung]

try removing the tuner B,s coax cable, and set tuner B, to not in use

 

[stevesom]

ok thanks i will take a look in the morning and update

 

[basilyoung]

please do,....as said, its likely that its some thing simple, so narrow down the issue, in this case, disable and disconnect tuner B

 

[Rob van der Does]

yes tuner A controlling the dish and tuner B set as tuner A,

Well, that's wrong than, because that means you have two motors.
Either you have one cable coming from your motor (than set tuner B to 'looptrough from tuner A') or you have two cables coming from a twin-LNB in the motor (so set tuner B to 'second cable from motor').

 

[TK4|2|1]

I read on another forum someone having problems with dark motor and vix, his solution was to lower the horizontal and vertical rates, what ever that is?

 

[stevesom]

Done what basilyoung suggested the dish moves if i unplug tuner B when i Plug it back in the dish wont move again thats my tuner config set as simple and the same settings as tuner A. which was the setting in 2.3.
Rob my motorised set up is coax from lnb to motor, then motor to tuner A on the reciever,then i have my other coax from the lnb straight to tuner B
what is the best setting for this setup?

 

[Maxwell]

set tuner A to simple positioner and tuner B to second cable of motorised dish and dont forget to reboot afterwards

 

[stevesom]

Thanks again gentlemen another fix for me, i set B to second cable of motorised dish,although loopthrough from tuner A worked as well.

 

[Rob van der Does]

Yes, technically loopthrough will work as well. But why would you limit yourself by not telling the truth?

After all, if you would use a loopthrough you wouldn't have bought a twin-LNB and not have had a second cable. Now that you have those, you should fully exploit those.

 

[stevesom]

Yes, technically loopthrough will work as well. But why would you limit yourself by not telling the truth?
dont understand what you mean?

After all, if you would use a loopthrough you wouldn't have bought a twin-LNB and not have had a second cable. Now that you have those, you should fully exploit those.

sorry rob dont quite understand what you mean i am new to all this i dont know the difference between loopthrough and B to second motorised dish,unless you can explain the difference?

 

[Rob van der Does]

If you use a loopthrough tuner B can only 'look' at the same 'quadrant' (High/Low - Horizontal/Vertical) as tuner A is tuned to. Using a second LNB, as you do, tuner B is not limited, but can look at all transponders (but of course only on the same satellite as tuner A).
And that's the very reason you bought yourself a twin-LNB (which is two LNB's in one housing) and invested in a second cable from the dish to your box !

FYI: In the satellite world part of the tuning is done by the LNB: the tuner sets the LNB to a quadrant; further tuning is done by the box. That is also the reason that you can't use splitters to split a signal to several receivers (as you can do for DVB-T/C reception).

 

[Maxwell]

loopthrough means that the second tuner can 'see' everything the first tuner can see so you can use a single lnb but the second tuner will still only have access to the same polarity and band that the other tuner is on at the time. With a twin lnb and independent cable to the second tuner you have full access to all bands/polarity available on both tuners at the same time

 

[stevesom]

I understand a little more now thanks for explaining it to me,i see i should have used this setting when i was on vix 2.3 but as it worked i didnt think nothing of it.
regards