New Avenger PLL321S-2 LNB Installed

[Kraven]

I mentioned I bought a 500ft roll of Rg6 quad shielded. Reason being...damn local squirels had chewed on the previous cable right down to the copper. Hopefully I was watching TV at the time and gave the rodent a mouth full of current.


Cheers, K

 

[cyberham]

If you are being cruel to defenseless animals, I may need to do a citizen's arrest as Gomer Pyle used to.

 

[catamount]

When motoring to the ends of the arc (15W and east, west of 103W), my dish is like an old man sitting down. It's easy to get down, but it's a struggle to get back up. So when my dish is moving back toward the higher elevations from the ends of the arc, I may need to electronically bump the dish a bit back and forth to get it to move properly. Maybe some commands are getting lost. I've developed a technique.

I believe that is to be expected. I realize the newer 2100 models have been beefed up. However, that model has many clones out there. I see some ads now claiming 1.2 metre and 33 lbs. I think that is total hype. A couple years ago, they were only good for about 25 pounds.

My starchoice 1 metre weighs 33 pounds. If I had a good LOS for a motor, I'd put a Staab HH120 on it, or possibly the new SG 6100.

Your dealer in Halifax quotes:

The SG-2100 is the finest quality DiSEqC dish motor you can get.
Designed by Moteck Electric Corp. of Taiwan, this rotor can be used to motorize a satellite dish sized up to 1.2 metres. Any offset dish with a U-bolt or pole mounting, 120 cm. aluminum or 95 cm steel. Winegard 30", FortecStar dishes.

Fine print for 1.2 metre says aluminum.

Wish you the best of luck, but think you will have trouble at the arc ends as you have stated!

Catamount

 

[cyberham]

The SG2100 served me well while I was using my light Ariza 39" dish. I could tell as soon as I had to struggle to get this new heavier, larger dish into place on the motor that the two likely were not a good pair. This dish is too heavy for that motor. Fortunately, I'm not receiving much of interest west of 103W since 125W is blocked by a hill. Today I spent an hour standing beside the dish and issuing commands so I could see exactly what the dish does. Once the dish goes too far west and you try to motor back toward east, the dish just sits there without moving. When inside you can't know this. One trick is to power down the LNB which reserves maximum power for the motor. And use the Reference command. That gets the dish back to a known point. From there, USALS takes it correctly where you want it to be.

The things we'd do differently if we knew then what we know now.

 

[Kraven]

It's more like squirrel crime against FTA

 

[jorgek]

cyberham,
"One trick is to power down the LNB which reserves maximum power for the motor. And use the Reference command. That gets the dish back to a known point. From there, USALS takes it correctly where you want it to be."

I guess you are also aware of the other trick is to have the motor move on a horizontal TP. The STB will supply 18v rather than 13v which may help move the stubborn over weight dish.

 

[cyberham]

Never thought of that, but it sounds like a good idea. My motor spec does say that the motor speed at 18V is 2.5 degs/sec and at 13V is 1.9 degs/sec, so the dish will get there faster too.