Fracarro Penta 85 (First Install)

Nelbert

Here's a few quick snaps of my first dish install.

It wasn't quite what I started thinking about. First thoughts were trying a £40 special from B & Q to see what we could get (mainly for Russian Channels for SWMBO) After a bit of research here plans changed.

It ended up being a Fracarro Penta 85 on a Technomate 2600 with a TM-6800HD So much for starting cheap and cheerful.

As I've no idea what's behind the red tiles I went for the long scaffold pole route instead of messing around with removing tiles, adding flashing etc to find it didn't work as expected.

I'll probably get someone in next year to sort out putting a short (3ft) pole for it to sit on under the gutter, mid-way between the windows. The extra height should be enough to see 40E for even more Ruski TV.

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thecaretaker

Well done, it looks a good sturdy pole and the fracarro looks good in the red with the tiles. Nice piccys

kenny1234

Good job! just watch you dont walk into those brackets

Tivù

Very nice indeed - I agree with the comment about the colour. Blends well.

satelliteman

Nice installation. Those FR 0.5dB LNb's perform extremely well

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shamone

Nice install Nelbert,


Where are you in the north east? I recognise those sytle houses. I am situated in North Shields.


Did you get your pole from the merchants at the Benton Industrial estate as mine had the same green and yellow markings

Nelbert

Cheers guys.

The pole should do the job, it was a scaffold pole in a previous life

The colours are certainly better than the black/grey things around here. Just a shame FR don't colour the arm or lnb to match the dish

Talking to the guy who did some work behind the tiles on the front of the house, and it's not going to be simple to attach. Might end up with some custom brackets to attach it to the little proper brickwork that goes up to the eaves.

Nelbert

Yes, SGB. They're 5 mins down the road.

I'm in Seghill, it's quite surprising how many of these styles of houses they put up in the Newcastle area. Sometimes only a couple of rows of them.

compufunk

Good work, nice install .

That looks like a Fracarro LNB. I've used one of those on the Penta 85. They are decent LNBs, but if you have a few pound to spare. I'd recommend the Inverto Black Premium.

I wasn't picking up the MBC beam on 26E at my westerly location until I upgraded from the Fracarro to the Inverto LNB.

shamone

Yeah thats the one SGB, I forgot the name of it. Yeah I know what you mean about the houses. Must have been a style of the times when they were built.

As compufunk said about the LNB, I just had a standard LNB on my 1M dish and upgraded with the Inverto Black Ultra and I could pick up alot more channels on 26E than before with the standard LNB.

As said before nice install , I like the Penta dishes

Oakey22

nice install you have there, a good dish for the size. I haev the same motor and dish as that and it works flawlessly for me.