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Spare Part Instruction – SAILOR 800 & 900 Pol Motor 
Document No.: 97-139037-C 
Revision: C 

Troubleshooting - Diagnostic LEDs on the ACU: 

The ACU has 3 LEDs: Power, Logon and Fail/Pass. 

 

 
Verify  the  status  of  the  unit  by  referencing  the  LEDs.  If  any  of  the  LEDs  are  not  steady  green  or 
flashing green then further diagnostics will need to be undertaken, referencing the below table: 

 

 
If the Fail/Pass LED is illuminated any colour other than steady green then it means there is an issue 
with  the  system.  Log  into  the  ACU  using  your  web  browser  and  refer  to  the  systems  event  log  as 
detailed in the following sections of this document. 

 

 

Summary of Contents for SAILOR 800 VSAT

Page 1: ...Reference Module ZRM reading the magnetic forces in each direction and taking a mean value as a reference position Upon initialization the encoder on the polarization unit will be calibrated based on...

Page 2: ...of the unit by referencing the LEDs If any of the LEDs are not steady green or flashing green then further diagnostics will need to be undertaken referencing the below table If the Fail Pass LED is i...

Page 3: ...Log into the Antenna Control Unit ACU 1 Connect a straight through Ethernet cable from the LAN port of your laptop to the LAN port of the ACU 2 Open the Network and Sharing Center on your laptop and...

Page 4: ...CP IPv4 Option 5 The Select the Use the following IP address button and enter in an IP address of 192 168 0 2 and a Subnet Mask of 255 255 255 0 6 Now click the OK button on both the IP Protocol Versi...

Page 5: ...Instruction SAILOR 800 900 Pol Motor Document No 97 139037 C Revision C 8 You ll now have access to the systems DASHBOARD 9 The following procedure will tell you how to access the events list and dia...

Page 6: ...page then shows a list of active events and notifications including The time and date of the first occurrence Time UTC The event code ID The severity of the event message Severity A description descr...

Page 7: ...the arm with the GPS antenna faces the service hatch 3 Switch off the power to the antenna using the service switch located on the rear of the pedestal 4 Rotate the antenna dish to 90 degrees of eleva...

Page 8: ...ardware for future use You can now access the polarization motor 11 Disconnect the power connector of the polarisation motor 12 Remove the four 4mm Allen screws that hold the motor retain the hardware...

Page 9: ...zero reference point with the antenna facing away from the service hatch 4 And finally the polarization unit then drives from end stop to end stop 270 degrees and then back to its zero reference poin...

Page 10: ...oting Self Test You can run a self test on the ACU and ADU of the antenna system 1 From the HELPDESK page click the Self test option 2 The system will now run the Self test 3 Ensure the test is comple...

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