So I put up my dish and....

[Twigman]

The TM motors point down.
The Stab motors point up.
Both have F connectors on the underside.

You've done it ptoperly.
Don't worry.

[Monty]

I don't know what motor twiggy has, but I remember that Stab did motors that mounted that way up.
I did mean to ask what motor twiggy is using.

[Twigman]

i don't know what motor twiggy has, but i remember that stab did motors that mounted that way up.
I did mean to ask what motor twiggy is using.

stab hh120

[Monty]

I thought so, or should I say I hoped so

[Chunkey]

Cheers for the info guys. Will be asking for lot's of help when the VU+ arrives.

Chunkey

[martyd]

seems to be a few in same boat on this thread so a pertinent question arose, when dish is mounted motor connected and cable run what is next stage of alignment, flash new image or set up dish without new image and do it later, with a 1.1m dish if your out a bit on south will you still receive something? and then fine tune?

[martyd]

Sorry just found this info on forum

[Monty]

I usually rough align the dish by using a real cheapo sat meter.
If all other settings have been done when assembling the dish/motor, make sure dish is at zero position, turn complete dish/motor/mount on the pole till a signal is detected as close to south as possible.
The most important thing in a motorised set up is getting the mount totally plumb.If it's not 100% plumb, the further the dish drives from zero, the more it strays off the correct arc.

[Sicilian]

Here's mine, not a great picture though, was taken with iPhone this morning.

[dfdream]

Sic,

What sat is this on in the photo. 28.2 ?

I had my dish on similar pole setup but had to go higher to clear the pitch of the garage roof.

It was 6-7 ft above gutter of 45deg roof.

Wind played havoc with it and the motor packed in. Gears sheared.

[Sicilian]

Pretty sure it was pointing to Hotbird 13deg. Clear's the roof just right lol!

Yes got to agree, wind does really catch it. Totally killed the TM2200 motor I used to have. Ended up replacing got a TM2600 all metal geared motor 2-3 weeks ago.

[dfdream]

I replaced with the same motor. Going on the ground though.

[kingy29]

Sat Dish.jpg
This is my setup 1.2m dish with TM2200 Inverto Quad Black Prenium pointing at 0.8w thor, fixed 60mm dish at 28E .
2" aluminium tube T & K brackets plus additional bracket to eliminate wind movement also filled the tuble with expandable foam, self installed quite pleased with the result

[jcgrumbles]

Can you not just change your wife,fancy moaning just because she cant see out the bedroom window.

[ttt1892]

Here`s my 1.25m,did it all by myself.I used to have a 1m dish on that pole which is now in the shed with the other motor still attached.


ttt.