Videocrypt
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- Mar 11, 2012
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- Age
- 49
- My Satellite Setup
- Very much in progress....
- My Location
- Midlands UK
It's been a long time since I had a satellite setup, infact it was back in the days of analogue satellite, season interface cards. multidec etc....
Recently I decided to get a basic digital setup, after reading different reviews and getting some great advice from users of these forums.
Bellow is a mini review on my current Kit:-
1M Alu Gibertini Dish
Although not cheap this Dish is superb quality and it's built to last, The reflector is solid, very well made and light due to it being Aluminium.
The mounts and brackets that came with the dish are extremely robust, They are made from pressed galvanised steel and are pretty heavy,
I doubt they would bend or twist even if I had tried to do so!
The LNB arm is made from a nice wide length of extruded aluminium which means the LNB should remain solid at all times.
Conclusion
PROS:
Great build quality.
CONS:
None.
STAB Rotot Sat HH120 DiSEqC Motor
The motor is a little difficult to review as I've only had it for a couple of weeks, going from the spec it has a full metal gearbox, and is designed
for dishes upto 1.2M (this obviosly depends on how heavy your dish is and also how exposed it is). I've not opened the case to look inside but
from the outside it seems solid and reasuringly heavy too.
I have read that STAB motors employ a large heavy duty spring to help protect the motor from strong gusts of wind, this to me (being an engineer)
made a lot of sense as ultimately if the dish is caught up in storm and the motor has no play at all 'somthing has to give' which could mean
sever damage to the gearbox.
On the downside I have read reviews with some users saying that the spring mechanism causes exesive play in the motor, having fitted my dish
I can report that there is a small amount of movment at the LNB but only a tiny amount, although I've not had the motor long this movement
does not seem to affect my signal at all even when windy.
Setup and instalation, bearing in mind that I have never setup a diseqc motor before I found the motor / dish easy to install the Manual that came
with the motor was pretty simple and straight forward and seemed get the job done nicely.
Conclusion
PROS:
Solid and well built.
Inbult spring mechanism to protect motor/gearbox.
Good manual.
Useful android App to aid setup (download from website)
CONS:
Quite expensive compared to other motors.
My install....
Recently I decided to get a basic digital setup, after reading different reviews and getting some great advice from users of these forums.
Bellow is a mini review on my current Kit:-
1M Alu Gibertini Dish
Although not cheap this Dish is superb quality and it's built to last, The reflector is solid, very well made and light due to it being Aluminium.
The mounts and brackets that came with the dish are extremely robust, They are made from pressed galvanised steel and are pretty heavy,
I doubt they would bend or twist even if I had tried to do so!
The LNB arm is made from a nice wide length of extruded aluminium which means the LNB should remain solid at all times.
Conclusion
PROS:
Great build quality.
CONS:
None.
STAB Rotot Sat HH120 DiSEqC Motor
The motor is a little difficult to review as I've only had it for a couple of weeks, going from the spec it has a full metal gearbox, and is designed
for dishes upto 1.2M (this obviosly depends on how heavy your dish is and also how exposed it is). I've not opened the case to look inside but
from the outside it seems solid and reasuringly heavy too.
I have read that STAB motors employ a large heavy duty spring to help protect the motor from strong gusts of wind, this to me (being an engineer)
made a lot of sense as ultimately if the dish is caught up in storm and the motor has no play at all 'somthing has to give' which could mean
sever damage to the gearbox.
On the downside I have read reviews with some users saying that the spring mechanism causes exesive play in the motor, having fitted my dish
I can report that there is a small amount of movment at the LNB but only a tiny amount, although I've not had the motor long this movement
does not seem to affect my signal at all even when windy.
Setup and instalation, bearing in mind that I have never setup a diseqc motor before I found the motor / dish easy to install the Manual that came
with the motor was pretty simple and straight forward and seemed get the job done nicely.
Conclusion
PROS:
Solid and well built.
Inbult spring mechanism to protect motor/gearbox.
Good manual.
Useful android App to aid setup (download from website)
CONS:
Quite expensive compared to other motors.
My install....
