Installing A Motor With Photos

[Realist]

MOTORISED DISH USING USALS

(Thanks to Skytel)

1: Put up wall bracket/pole vertical with a spirit level on a south facing wall or as close to south as possible.


2: while motor is still on floor adjust your elevation/latitude markings on the motor to the same as your latitude where you live, if your motor markings have only elevation makings it is 90- latitude= elevation on motor, mine is 51.5 latitude if it was elevation markings I would have put it to 38.5 yours will be different to mine. I use multimap.com to find my longitude and latitude. Tighten up as this will not have to be adjusted again.


3: Attach your dish to motor while still on floor making sure the dish bracket is in line with the vertical line on the motor as this is very important. Tighten up bracket to the dish as you should not have to adjust this again. And also loosely tighten up the nut on the elevation on dish.


4: Put dish and motor to wall bracket and point roughly south then loosely tighten up.
5: Run your cable from your receiver to the motor.


6: Input your latitude and longitude on your receiver yours will be different to minebefore adjusting your dish, and then tell usals to go to Thor 1W/0.8W.



7: Then adjust the dish for the best signal for Thor, by moving only the motor around the wall bracket/poleand the elevation on dish. I use a meter for this part but for people without a meter I believe a lot of members have been using BBC world to check the signal with. Once the signal is the best you can get it tighten everything up, and then run cable from motor to lnb, if you are using your receiver to check signal for alignment rather than a meter this needs to be done first.


8: Seal all the cable connections with amalgamating tape.
9: finish


10: Watch football


If you are not confident working at heights or using power tools do not attempt this yourself.
Stay safe.

[czechrite]

Thanks for the really usefull info...I'm moving and I'll have to install my dish at a new place in Bratislava. Mine is motorized also, but I have no experience installing, per se....but I've learned a lot in the past year or so I've had it.

[teddyboysampson]

czechrite

what i would do m8 is just befor you take it down drive it to thor ( 1 west) and when you put it back up line it up for 1 west and a good fta channel is gospel or is it the got channel ? is a good channel to line it on , then hopefully the other sats should fall in

with a bit of luck lol

Teddy

[czechrite]

Originally Posted by teddyboysampson

czechrite

what i would do m8 is just befor you take it down drive it to thor ( 1 west) and when you put it back up line it up for 1 west and a good fta channel is gospel or is it the got channel ? is a good channel to line it on , then hopefully the other sats should fall in

with a bit of luck lol

Teddy

Cool, that's good advice then. I'll do that.

[teddyboysampson]

czechrite

well if i was moving then i supose that is what i would try, i supose if your dish is ok and it follows the arc from eas to west then i carnt see why it would not work, also i am shaw thor @ 1 w is a good sat to set up on as it is bang in the middle

Teddy

[skytel]

hmmm,read this somewhere before,where's the photos.lol

[BlackHawk]

Had the same problem back on Satellitehelp, no picturers, just an "x" within a box. That was until some member sorted it out. Perhaps he came over and can sort it out here.
BlackHawk

[Robbo]

Originally Posted by BlackHawk

Had the same problem back on Satellitehelp, no picturers, just an "x" within a box. That was until some member sorted it out. Perhaps he came over and can sort it out here.
BlackHawk

Not much chance I'm afraid, these were from a previous forum merger.

[skytel]

its just that post is my post from another sat forum,but i dont mind,but my thread the pics was there

[Robbo]

Originally Posted by skytel

its just that post is my post from another sat forum,but i dont mind,but my thread the pics was there

Hi mate, if you have the pictures or can give me a link, I will put them in.
Robbo,


PM me.

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