New user - old Birdview

[bombu]

I've ordered the LNBF and receiver. Thanks very much to all of you who helped me out! I will continue here once I have made some progress.

 

[bombu]

I

I've ordered the LNBF and receiver. Thanks very much to all of you who helped me out! I will continue here once I have made some progress.

I'm back sooner than I had anticipated. Here's a picture of the gear box. It has a helipot precision potentiometer and plastic (nylon?) gears. I expected metal.

There's still the other half of the box yet to be opened.

 

[Titanium]

I

I'm back sooner than I had anticipated. Here's a picture of the gear box. It has a helipot precision potentiometer and plastic (nylon?) gears. I expected metal.

There's still the other half of the box yet to be opened.View attachment 181943

Like the rest of the hardware on the Birdview, welcome to "old school", original install, components from the 1980's.

Do you still have the original positioner controller to power and move the motor? You could upgrade the multi-turn potentiometer to either an optical sensor or reed switch, but really the 1st question is how you plan on controlling the dish position?

 

[telstar_1]

That's normal, those used nylon gears. Probably a 10k 10-turn pot. Not worth trying to convert to reed switch.