Adding 2nd dish to motorized system

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The Standard or Universal should be at the focus point of the dish for best signal.
Anybody who needs both, didn't plan well. :rolleyes:

But, the Circular can be beside the main LNB.
The circular satellites put out a lot of power, and are much further apart in the sky.
Their alignment is far less critical.
But to get 119° on the circular LNB, you'll still need to motor the main LNB over to 125° or 113° or whatever direction puts the circular LNB pretty much on the desired bird.

As for wiring, see the Switches Simplified FAQ.

Bonus: the circular LNB has no skew to be concerned with. :)

easy setup

receiver----motor---diseqc switch---port 1 was KU
--------------------------------------------port 2 circular
--------------------------------------------port 3 Universal

doesnt matter how close they are. I put them next to each other
skew on mototrized is done via the motor so that is set at 0

DBS doesnt suffer because they are strong signals and on most DBS dishes the LNB"s are offset anyways. On a Dish500 the LNB's are 4.5 degrees off centre.

The only drawback is to set up DBS you need to compensate if you use USALS. The DBS LNB needs to have 5 degrees taken off of it. In the above to get say 110 DBS I actually aim the dish at 105.

The UNiversal I added 5-6 degrees. Its all trial and error honestly

This sound interesting. It will certainly be fun to play around with the setup. I can't wait.:D
 
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