How far up the motor should the dish be

extraspark

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Hi all,

I have a TM2600 motor and triax TD88 dish. I was just wondering how high up the shaft of the motor should the dish be positioned.
I have looked through the manuals etc and seen nothing mentioning how high up it should go. I realise this is probobly a stupid question but it was just something I thought about before I do the installation
Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
 
Hi Extrapark,
Tighten the bolts on the shaft attached to the motor this will stop any play up and down on the motor when its windy.
I have always put the dish as near the bottom of the lenth of shaft as possible, it depends on the motor but on the ones I have used it allowed more of an arch for the dish to travel.
I use thor 0.8 degrees west and bbc world news or gospel channels which are free to air and as close to 0 degrees as we can get.
good luck
DLB
 
I usually put the dish around halfway up the shaft mate and not at the bottom,infact i,m sure i read somewhere for the uk it should be around 2 inches from the bottom but the most important thing is your pole being as straight as a dye especially if you are using usals?

Also you should always try and face your main bracket at true 0 degrees if in the uk and again if using usals which most do these days but it really depends what satellites you are intending to pick up and ofcourse your dish size!
 
Doesn't matter how high or how low you are on the motor shaft ~ The Clark belt, where all the satellites are situated, is thousands of miles away.
Make sure your dish bracket is located on the center line of the shaft, usually illustrated by a casting mark in the shaft itself. You can fine tune the motor dish assembly to achieve the correct arc for east west satellites using the fine tune section of the attached file.
 
Thanks for all the advice guys,

Taken on board, just some fine tuning to do now to get the most sats possible.

Having trouble loacting hipasat 30W at the moment, so will play around with it over the next few weeks
 
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