the rotor plugin ( or at least version 1.4mh) can control one rotor per card.
For c-band you need a vbox to translate the diseqc commands and to provide the 36 volts to drive the actuator. Thats how I do it. costs about $40 (australian). Piece of cake. Or am I missing something?
Mike
I've seen those boxes advertised but hadn't looked at them close yet. Seen any diy projects for those? designing/building the hardware is easy, but I'm not much of a programmer. That vbox is what the electronics part of the small dish rotors are. I was thinking of building around an Atmel chip. They are a couple dollars US and could easily do the job. They have enough both ram and flash memory to store the position of every sat up there, not just the ones you can see.
On 6/24/2010 3:32 AM, Mike Booth wrote:
Is your bud motorized? You found a diseqc motor that works with big dishes? Because they need bigger motors then can be powered by the card, they use a different setup. A Actuator that runs on 36v and is told to move one way or the other and then pulses are counted and then the motor is told to stop. Small dish rotors have all that logic on board and you just teil them where you want the dish pointing
On 6/24/2010 1:04 PM, Goga777 wrote:
Приветствую, Timothy
Is your bud motorized?
yes, I have the motor STRONG SRT DM 2100 http://faraday-systems.uaprom.net/p383218-motopodves-disek-pozitsioner.html (not actuator) and the the dish with diameter 1,1 meter
You found a diseqc motor that works with big dishes?
1,1 meter is not big size. And I can watch several satellites in C band with it - the sat positions - 40e, 80e, 90e, 95e
The secret is in good LNB, specially and manually adopted for C-band and my dish (from Russian engineer Alyno) http://forum2.alyno.ru/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=713#713
ok, understand than. But in my case no need any big and special motors
Goga
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