RichardM
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TM5000 DAPCI
1.1m non-brand dish & 1.2m CM
- My Location
- Dublin, Ireland
Hi all,
I'm getting a motorised system installed and I'm not terribly convinced by the installer, so I was hoping for a few expert opinions!
I had a motorised system (1.2m CM dish, 36V actuator, TM5000 DAPCI receiver) in my old house, mounted on a large (5"??) pole in the garden. I brought dish, motor & receiver with me when I moved (2 years ago :-) and am just getting back to them now.
1. Due to orientation of house (in Dublin, back faces roughly 60W by dishpointer.com and there are very high trees in the park behind it) in order to get 28E & 15W (for NFL) the installer reckons that garden mount won't work, so he is going to put it on the back wall, but that CM & 36V motor are too big & heavy to wall mount (especially having to raise dish above gutter), so he is selling me a 1.1m no-brand dish and MotekSM2100 DiseqC motor.
Q. Is he right that 12m CM & 36V couldn't/shouldn't be wall-mounted or is he just trying to sell me a new dish/motor? To be honest, the new setup looks much less noticable, which will go down well with the local residents I think, so I don't mind the expense if I am not losing quality - is a 1.1m no-name steel dish really comparable to a 1.2m fibreglass CM from 8 or 9 yrs ago? I'm sure I'll be ok for 28E & 15W but what about e.g. 26E (which he assures me will be receivable on this dish)?
The new dish is a fraction of the weight of the CM, but still I thought that DiseqC motors weren't meant for dishes over 1m (even if it's lighter I would've thought that the bigger factor was the wind load, which I assume would be about the same)?
Finally (and most worryingly) he arrived with 12 & 18" T&K brackets for the installation, but they didn't reach past the gutter, so he said the only option was to mount it on the wall of our ground floor extension, which would be much more obvious in the garden, from the sunroof, from the bedroom windows *and* which would risk losing 15W (not to mention many others) due to the trees. He said that 18" was the largest size of T&K brackets available and he suggested finding a welder if I wanted larger! Thanks to this thread I can already save myself having to find a welder (although I am wondering if I need to find a new installer... :-) but I am wondering if using 24" brackets pushes the whole 1.1m dish issue over the edge of reliability...? Would 1 pair of 24" be ok, should I get 2 pairs or is it just too impractical?
Any advice, suggestions, etc. very welcome!
Many thanks,
Richard.
I'm getting a motorised system installed and I'm not terribly convinced by the installer, so I was hoping for a few expert opinions!
I had a motorised system (1.2m CM dish, 36V actuator, TM5000 DAPCI receiver) in my old house, mounted on a large (5"??) pole in the garden. I brought dish, motor & receiver with me when I moved (2 years ago :-) and am just getting back to them now.
1. Due to orientation of house (in Dublin, back faces roughly 60W by dishpointer.com and there are very high trees in the park behind it) in order to get 28E & 15W (for NFL) the installer reckons that garden mount won't work, so he is going to put it on the back wall, but that CM & 36V motor are too big & heavy to wall mount (especially having to raise dish above gutter), so he is selling me a 1.1m no-brand dish and MotekSM2100 DiseqC motor.
Q. Is he right that 12m CM & 36V couldn't/shouldn't be wall-mounted or is he just trying to sell me a new dish/motor? To be honest, the new setup looks much less noticable, which will go down well with the local residents I think, so I don't mind the expense if I am not losing quality - is a 1.1m no-name steel dish really comparable to a 1.2m fibreglass CM from 8 or 9 yrs ago? I'm sure I'll be ok for 28E & 15W but what about e.g. 26E (which he assures me will be receivable on this dish)?
The new dish is a fraction of the weight of the CM, but still I thought that DiseqC motors weren't meant for dishes over 1m (even if it's lighter I would've thought that the bigger factor was the wind load, which I assume would be about the same)?
Finally (and most worryingly) he arrived with 12 & 18" T&K brackets for the installation, but they didn't reach past the gutter, so he said the only option was to mount it on the wall of our ground floor extension, which would be much more obvious in the garden, from the sunroof, from the bedroom windows *and* which would risk losing 15W (not to mention many others) due to the trees. He said that 18" was the largest size of T&K brackets available and he suggested finding a welder if I wanted larger! Thanks to this thread I can already save myself having to find a welder (although I am wondering if I need to find a new installer... :-) but I am wondering if using 24" brackets pushes the whole 1.1m dish issue over the edge of reliability...? Would 1 pair of 24" be ok, should I get 2 pairs or is it just too impractical?
Any advice, suggestions, etc. very welcome!
Many thanks,
Richard.