Will I have to move my dish to motorize it?

[sg_]

Hello all, first post here so I excuse if some find this a stupid question ! .
At the minute I have 2 dishes up outside my house (sky & then a 80cm dish for astra/hotbird (dual lnb)). They are both beside each other at present as you can see from the pic below, incase i am not explaining this very well. -

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Now, there is also a garage to the right of the picture (left of the dishes) (14ft or so ahead of the house), but it is just slightly higher than the height the dishes are mounted onto the wall of the house at. I also have a clear view to the left/right of the image apart from the garage of course (i hope i have my bearings correct!).

I would prefer to have as large a range of satellites as possible if I did motorise the dish, but I have a feeling i'll have to move the dish so i would appreciate a second opinion on it since im quite new to all this. Sorry about the poorly worded title too, it sounds quite stupid lol

Thanks.

Steven.

 

[Rob]

Welcome sg, If the garage is only slightly higher than the dish it shouldn't be a problem.

 

[sg_]

Thanks for your reply.

I have another thing i'd like cleared up if you dont mind.
After viewing a picture of the clark belt & satellites, I was thinking that the satellite furthest west i could recieve with the dish in its current position was possibly 1west?. Unless i remounted the dish on the edge of the house wall to allow me to see further 'west', unless im mistaken and have my bearings all wrong ?.

 

[gameboy]

Remember that when you add the motor the dish will be out further from the wall.

This will allow it to turn more.

 

[sg_]

Yup.

What I really would like would be to be able to shift from ~30e to ~30west, but the further each way the better. Would this be possible if I mounted the dish further from the wall than the sky dish?.

Here is a side view if it is any help :s -



Sorry about all the questions but i want to be 100% sure before I spend any money/do anything.

 

[gameboy]

Looks to me that you should get 15 west with a motorised set -up.

See mine here...

http://www.satellites.co.uk/php-bin/forum/attachment.php?attachmentid=1297&d=1097419609

 

[sg_]

Ah. Thanks for your help. So if i mount the dish a bit further out from the wall I should be grand.
I was mainly after the feeds on 12.5w so thats good enough!.

 

[BGonaSTICK]

Looks like something might have to give to get 30W.

Maybe you could drop the Sky dish underneath the other, or it's going to block it's line of sight?

 

[sg_]

Overall, id rather leave the sky dish where its at, since if i mess something up ill have to listen to everyone else in the house complain 'O'-red . It wouldnt be a problem to move the white dish to the near edge of the wall (in the pic), this would give it a clear view from east to west.

 

[rolfw]

It needs to go to the left and higher.

 

[sg_]

Thanks rolfw.
Would it still work even if I constructed my own mount, or bought one so i could have it on the actual corner of the wall. Something like this -



Or would it be better to have it the way you have mentioned in your post?.

 

[rolfw]

The corner would be OK or even on the flank wall, but close to the corner with a standoff bracket.

PS. You can actually upload your pictures as an attachement, then they will be presented as a thumbnail and will always be available, despite what happens with the image host.

 

[sg_]

Ah thats great, thanks. Thats cleared alot up for me .

Which motor would you reccomend by the way?.

 

[rolfw]

For an 80cm dish, the Moteck SG-2100 would be a good buy.

 

[sg_]

Cheers.
Once I have the motor and the standoff bracket for the dish, that would be all the new equipment i'd require then, yeah?.

 

[rolfw]

Pretty much.

 

[sg_]

Good stuff!. Thanks very much for your help.

 

[sg_]

One final question then thats me all done for tonight, .

I was looking at the motors or some websites, and I see things called 'actulators' aswell grouped in along with them. Do i need one of these too?, or are they optional?.

 

[BGonaSTICK]

They are an alternate method, used with a polar mount. Like a piston arrangement, but requires the pivot point too. Need 36V to drive them, so more cables, and more money too.

Moteck is the way to go for your smallish dish.

I assume that you have a DiSEqC 1.2 enabled receiver, or a plugin for your Skystar1?

 

[sg_]

Ah, thanks.

Yeah, i have a reciever too but I dont have it wired up at the minute because I dont have enough sockets in the wall.