just got the dish up and nothing......

[kev the plumber]

just got my dish and motor up and all the cables and receiver sorted. first problem is the receiver says LNBF ???????

Any ideas?

Also ive done everything as the manuel says and dont have any power light on the motor.


Orbital 80cm dish technomate 5400ci dis1.2 motor

[kev the plumber]

just tried putting the coax straight into lnb and still no signal. also just plugged an old sky box in and no signal. new dish is facing the same way as the sky dish and i had the old box working on the sky dish. i have not got a clue what ive done wrong here. im not sure if the motor or the lnb even works

[Andie v6]

you need to set up the sat you want on the box, ie 28.2 for the sky, and change the motor settings to usals, all on the box, this will then supply power to the motor, follow this and you cant go wrong

Installing A Motor With Photos

[kev the plumber]

gteat guide you put on. ive already done all you said but just double checked. still no power to the motor and display on receiver says lnbf. got it off southern satallite might have to give him a bell.

[robbo71]

You have done, one thing right and that is to try the receiver without the motor. If that doesn't pick anything up, then its either : you haven't aligned the dish properly,your settings are wrong, a dodgy cable, or a dodgy LNB.

Can you post a screen shot of where it says LNBF???

Which menu does it appear in?

To test without the motor, in the satellite setup, just set the Diseqc parameters all to off. In the motorised setup, set them to off as well.

Somewhere in the menus, you also have to set the LNB type, set it to Universal.

And obvioiusly the dish has to be carefully aligned to get a signal.

Robbo

[kev the plumber]

ok ill and check the settings on the dish first. just got back from a weekend away so ill have a look tomorrow night. on the technomate 5400 on the display lcd of the box it says lnbf. ill try and bypass the motor first, if i aim it exactly where my sky dish was should i be able to use my sky plus box or do i have to use the sky dish cos i might try that and then that should tell me if the lnb is working. got the lnb set to universal.

[kev the plumber]

right ive bypassed the motor and gone straight into the lnb from reciever. im dead on south so shouldnt be a problem. still nothing. on the screen its just saying

no or bad signal also 21-23%

moved it all over the place and no improvement. even moved it to where my sky dish was and plugged in the sky box and nothing. im losing the will to live


i gather the motor is no good also

[Andie v6]

you have to move the dish very slowly, theres an art to it, you cant Rush it, like a mm at a time, what happens if you put your TM on your sky dish cable and do a scan?, also, just by pointing at what looks right to another dish, 99% dont work like that, have you turned the motor on, in the satellite you want settings on the TM?, stick with it

[robbo71]

Originally Posted by kev the plumber

night. on the technomate 5400 on the display lcd of the box it says lnbf. .

To be honest, that sounds like a fault condition, like a short on the cable or something. Have you checked the maual to see what that message on the LED display means?

Robbo

[Andie v6]

Originally Posted by robbo71

To be honest, that sounds like a fault condition, like a short on the cable or something. Have you checked the maual to see what that message on the LED display means?

Robbo

i was thinking that, but dont have a tm, hence the (pop it on the sky lead bit)