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STOWING the Dish
To stow the dish (place it into the travel position (fully retracted)) press the "STOW"
button once and the controller will begin to return the dish to the travel position. The STOW
LED will flash while stowing. The "STOW" button can be pressed anytime during the search for
and after locking onto a satellite(s). Once the dish is stowed, the controller will shut itself down
automatically.
SD MEMORY CARDS
The system will operate properly with or without a memory card inserted. The card has two
Functions.
1. Upgrading the latest firmware (obtained from
the Root Directory.
2. If you create a folder on the SD Card called "LOGFILES" the system will be able to log
information which will aid in troubleshooting the system if an error should occur. This
file folder is not automatically created it must be created in order to function.
The card is inserted by pushing the card into the slot until it clicks into place. To remove
the card, depress the card once again and the socket will eject it then slide the card out of the
memory slot. The SD Card must be formatted to a
STEPS TO PERFORM A FIRMWARE UPGRADE
1. Stow the dish before beginning this upgrade procedure.
2. The Nomad SD/SD2 Controller(s) can be upgraded manually by copying the latest
firmware upgrade from the MotoSAT WEB site www.motosat.com into the Root
Directory. See EXPLANATION of SD Card Root Directory in this manual. Be
sure to copy the file into the card's "root directory" and not into a subdirectory or
folder.
3. Power OFF the controller then insert the memory into the card slot of the
controller.
4. Power ON the controller. Within 10 seconds the Nomad SD/SD2 Controller will
automatically detect the upgrade and install the upgrade code.
During the upgrade process, the FIND and STOW LED's will flash alternately indicating that
programming is taking place. DO NOT remove the SD memory card from the Controller
until upgrade process is completed. Completion of the upgrade is indicated by steady FIND
and STOW LED's. If no upgrade is detected or the upgrade attempted has an older version file
name than what is already installed in the controller, an upgrade will not take place.
www.motosat.com
FAT32
file format.
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