fergyc
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- Mar 22, 2010
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- Age
- 31
- My Satellite Setup
- VU+ Duo with ViX and OSCAM, Prof Revolution 7301 PCI Card, 2x Dreambox 500S, 80cm Technomate Dish with Inverto Black Ultra and TM-2600 DiSEqC Motor. Technomate TM-300D along with a few zone 1 minidishes that get moved regularly and a zone 2 for 19e a
- My Location
- Northumberland
I might as well start with a bit of background info.
Been messing around with 2e and picking up feeds and have had enough of moving it manually so wanted some kind of declination control. First thought was an actuator but there are two problems:
1. They're at least £20 or something
2. That isn't the way I do things
How could I make my own. After some searching a found a way of doing it:
A broken drill
A bit of pipe
Nut
Bolt
The first thing you need to do is manage to jam the nut into the pipe, best way is to heat it up, put the nut in and then cool it so the nut jams in place or you could solder it etc.
Next thing I did was screw the head off the nut, this meant it could fit in the drill motor. Now that's as far as I've got so far but I'll explain the rest of the plan.
Take the drill apart so I've just got the motor and attach it to the bolt, somehow attach it to the dish then run a wire, along where the coax cable goes and wire it up to a 12V plug with polarity switcher and use it with a push to make switch. I'll keep updating this and upload a few pictures as well.
Been messing around with 2e and picking up feeds and have had enough of moving it manually so wanted some kind of declination control. First thought was an actuator but there are two problems:
1. They're at least £20 or something
2. That isn't the way I do things
How could I make my own. After some searching a found a way of doing it:
A broken drill
A bit of pipe
Nut
Bolt
The first thing you need to do is manage to jam the nut into the pipe, best way is to heat it up, put the nut in and then cool it so the nut jams in place or you could solder it etc.
Next thing I did was screw the head off the nut, this meant it could fit in the drill motor. Now that's as far as I've got so far but I'll explain the rest of the plan.
Take the drill apart so I've just got the motor and attach it to the bolt, somehow attach it to the dish then run a wire, along where the coax cable goes and wire it up to a 12V plug with polarity switcher and use it with a push to make switch. I'll keep updating this and upload a few pictures as well.
