Radar
The motor is dead. Something burned out in it. I havent tore it apart but it wont move (tried 3 receivers) and no signal yet if I bypass the motor it works. No biggie as it was the "backup" motor for college sports season
The way my setup is the mast that is there is my old Starchoice (Shaw Direct) mast. 2" OD. My dishes are on the back side of the house (north side) facing south so to make the motorized work I had to put some metal piping there to extend the mast. There is a 1 3/4 metal conduit jammed into the top of the Shaw mast and a couple bolts are put through it. This extends the mast about 2 1/2 to 3 feet (see attached pic).
I tried to take the motor off but that brings me to another issue. The clamp on the dish is barely 1 5/8" so it was a pain to get on top of the mast. I got it on there but then the elevation of the dish would only get to 20 or so and the issue of the dish being 5 feet above the roofline just screams "roof mishap" if the wind blows. And no the pipe wont come out (bolts are kinda almost welded in there)
So the only way to get 30W is a lot of work trying to get the motor shaft and the dish elevation right. The old Shaw dish you could skew the whole dish so I had more room around the pole. Since this dish cant skew I'm limited on it.
Thats why I said heck with it and aimed at 97W which is only 4 off true south
The motor is dead. Something burned out in it. I havent tore it apart but it wont move (tried 3 receivers) and no signal yet if I bypass the motor it works. No biggie as it was the "backup" motor for college sports season
The way my setup is the mast that is there is my old Starchoice (Shaw Direct) mast. 2" OD. My dishes are on the back side of the house (north side) facing south so to make the motorized work I had to put some metal piping there to extend the mast. There is a 1 3/4 metal conduit jammed into the top of the Shaw mast and a couple bolts are put through it. This extends the mast about 2 1/2 to 3 feet (see attached pic).
I tried to take the motor off but that brings me to another issue. The clamp on the dish is barely 1 5/8" so it was a pain to get on top of the mast. I got it on there but then the elevation of the dish would only get to 20 or so and the issue of the dish being 5 feet above the roofline just screams "roof mishap" if the wind blows. And no the pipe wont come out (bolts are kinda almost welded in there)
So the only way to get 30W is a lot of work trying to get the motor shaft and the dish elevation right. The old Shaw dish you could skew the whole dish so I had more room around the pole. Since this dish cant skew I'm limited on it.
Thats why I said heck with it and aimed at 97W which is only 4 off true south
