Triax TD110 LNB arm position

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Riqaq

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My Satellite Setup
Technomate Tm6600 hd +1.1m dish on 120 mount
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Lancashire
I have just bought a Triax TD110 Dish and the LNB arm is moveable up/down, does anyone know what the optimum posiiton of this (in terms of the position of maximum gain) is as mving it up and down later with alter my positioner geometry.

Thanks
 
If correctly fitted, the up/down movement is very slight: I adjust mine by jamming a matchstick under the point where it enters the dish face.

But in the first instance, I'd simply leave it in its natural position.
 
Sounds like he hasnt clicked the arm onto the plastic lugs locking it down, or doesnt it have them on the 110, my 88 has.
 
TD110 is different, PDP.
 
I stand corrected. :-righton
 
The TD110 should have a small fixing bolt at the dish end.
 
It does indeed - two, in fact:

A vertical bolt with a wing nut to secure: One has to tighten with care as the metalwork of the arm is none too strong: Overtightening can cause slight distortion and undertightening means up/down play!

And a horizontal through-bolt: This forms the fulcrum for the up/down play that the vertical bolt should stabilise.
 
I found this out some years ago when removing one, in order to get to get it into the van I applied upward pressure to the arm thinking it was like the TD88, only to find that I'd bent it rather than moved it. :)
 
On a related note, a couple of years ago my patio-mounted TD110 fell forward onto the arm in a storm (I have since acquired sandbags!) and the arm bent beyond redemption at the very weak point a few inches forward of the dish face where the offset is applied.

Decent performer, but had I been a member here before I bought it, I'd have got a Gibertini 1.04.

The Triax is too heavy and has a dreadful elevation slider.

Also, people don't necessarily twig that the apparently spare bit of metalwork in the kit is a brace that fits inside the rear bracket: Fail to fit that and forget accurate tracking!
 
Tivù said:
The Triax is too heavy and has a dreadful elevation slider.

Also, people don't necessarily twig that the apparently spare bit of metalwork in the kit is a brace that fits inside the rear bracket: Fail to fit that and forget accurate tracking!
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Looks like I should have been here before! I managed to put it on the technomate moter on my own.

But for bad elevation action, you need the 105 Technomate I had The cutout triangle didn't get to a point by the time it hit the scale. The only way I could get nilesat was by setting up a channel on the receiver and sector scanning it like an old radar until I got a quality bar :-wow

Luckily (rather than by skill) I fathomed the bracing plate out from the instruction pictures.
 
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