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New Satellite to replace budget aged 1m motorised dish
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<blockquote data-quote="realdannys" data-source="post: 1135756" data-attributes="member: 417946"><p>Hello everyone.</p><p></p><p>I've scanned a few posts here and collected a bit of info as most people ask similar questions of course.</p><p></p><p>I've had a ground mounted 1m motorised dish system since about 2012 - it was a really cheap system from eBay, probably about £100 for everything - big grey unbranded dish. To be fair it worked very well, back in the halcyon days I could even pick up Nilesat.</p><p></p><p>Early 2020 my Dark Motor failed and I replaced it with a TM-2600. I had some signal for a while but it stopped worked and then I had work done on the house so never went back to it. I've tried this summer to remedy things but cannot get the system tuned in again for the life of me and I fear it's a number of things.</p><p></p><p>For a start when putting everything together the arm on the TM-2600 moves...it appears to do this within the dial at the top rather than it's bolted connection which seems odd. I regret taking the arm off when I first got it to adjust the limits as I didn't really need to adjust them. So first thing I believe I need another new motor as this is knocking things out.</p><p></p><p>Secondly though I think at least the bracket on the dish has had it's day. All bolts have rusted, I don't believe they're holding very well anymore - i've also had to cut some of the bracket out on the back so that it would fit with the motor in the right place.</p><p></p><p>So i've looked at a few dishes. I know things like the Gibertini OM100 is very well made, but is it going to get me a better signal than say one of the 1m Technomate dishes that can be had for half the price - or is it just a case of the structure and longevity is better? I don't want to go too crazy on the setup these days as I think it's barely worth it anymore in the UK but I would like to get something back up and running that works as well as my previous system did for 8 years.</p><p></p><p>I've got a VU+ Duo2 receiver, cabling is still fine in place and the pole which was cemented in about a meter underground i still rock solid and perfectly straight. So I just want to invest in a better dish with bracket and a motor that doesn't appear to rock on or move. The dish has always had a bit of give and move in it when you puled or pushed it, but I think now it's gone a bit too far (there's always a chance it's warped in the wind at some point too, maybe even the lnb arm itself)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="realdannys, post: 1135756, member: 417946"] Hello everyone. I've scanned a few posts here and collected a bit of info as most people ask similar questions of course. I've had a ground mounted 1m motorised dish system since about 2012 - it was a really cheap system from eBay, probably about £100 for everything - big grey unbranded dish. To be fair it worked very well, back in the halcyon days I could even pick up Nilesat. Early 2020 my Dark Motor failed and I replaced it with a TM-2600. I had some signal for a while but it stopped worked and then I had work done on the house so never went back to it. I've tried this summer to remedy things but cannot get the system tuned in again for the life of me and I fear it's a number of things. For a start when putting everything together the arm on the TM-2600 moves...it appears to do this within the dial at the top rather than it's bolted connection which seems odd. I regret taking the arm off when I first got it to adjust the limits as I didn't really need to adjust them. So first thing I believe I need another new motor as this is knocking things out. Secondly though I think at least the bracket on the dish has had it's day. All bolts have rusted, I don't believe they're holding very well anymore - i've also had to cut some of the bracket out on the back so that it would fit with the motor in the right place. So i've looked at a few dishes. I know things like the Gibertini OM100 is very well made, but is it going to get me a better signal than say one of the 1m Technomate dishes that can be had for half the price - or is it just a case of the structure and longevity is better? I don't want to go too crazy on the setup these days as I think it's barely worth it anymore in the UK but I would like to get something back up and running that works as well as my previous system did for 8 years. I've got a VU+ Duo2 receiver, cabling is still fine in place and the pole which was cemented in about a meter underground i still rock solid and perfectly straight. So I just want to invest in a better dish with bracket and a motor that doesn't appear to rock on or move. The dish has always had a bit of give and move in it when you puled or pushed it, but I think now it's gone a bit too far (there's always a chance it's warped in the wind at some point too, maybe even the lnb arm itself) [/QUOTE]
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