Triax TD110 LNB arm position

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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.

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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.
 

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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.
 

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TD110 is different, PDP.
 

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I stand corrected. :-righton
 

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The TD110 should have a small fixing bolt at the dish end.
 

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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.
 

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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. :)
 

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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!
 

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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!
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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