Re: Fruitballs Motorised Installtion Guide
Fruitballs Motorised Installation Guide
This is only a guide.. Please remember to keep safe working at heights and using power tools. It may look easy to install a dish but remember climbing ladders is one thing, drilling, working and carrying up a dish is a completly different ball game. If you do not feel safe get someone else to do it! This is only a rough guide, i am not responsible for any damage or injurys your may cause or do to yourself. You may require 2 people carrying the dish on the bracket. I used a rope to pull dish up to brackets but let me tell you it is friggin heavy and not for the faint hearted! BE SAFE!
TOOLS AND EQUIPMENT REQUIRED
Ladders - Make sure you have them at a safe angle and that they wont slip out, tie them down
Hammer drill, drill bits, 10mm,13mm ring spanners, other sizes do help
Spirit level and or incliometer, felt tip to mark drill points
self amalgimating tape, insulation tape, F connectors,
Hammer, clips, screwdrivers, rg6 cable or better
Dish, motor, lnb, brackets, pole ( i used scaffolding pole for my install)
hardhat, eye protection, harness, rope,
satellite meter or your satellite receiver for aligning
Cutters, plyers and other tools,
I used a TM-2600 MOTOR, 1M STEEL ORBITAL DISH, 18INCH T AND K BRACKETS, MUNGO PLUGS AND BOLTS AND WASHERS, 2 FOOT SCAFFOLD POLE I CUT UP, U CLAMPS AND WASHERS, TM1 GOLD LNB, RG6 FOAM FILLED CABLE
1. Mount your T & K'S making sure there level and straight. Use washers when connecting the mungo bolts (or whatever bolts you are using) to ensure a nice even tight fit. Some people mount the T at the top Or some people mount the K at the top I will do either depending on install.
Mount pole and make sure it is dead vertical and plumb. This has to be perfect!
Use a angle finder or spirit level 360 degrees around pole
Once happy tighten up uclamps to pole and make sure it is solid and double check it is plumb, if it is even slightly out it will not track arc properly
Assemly your dish and set your latitude on your motor. In the manual for your motor should be a conversion table for the readout on the side of the motor. To find out your latitude and longitude go to multimap.com, google maps or at a push a satnav. Set your latitude on the side of the motor and then bolt up tight.
Mount dish to motor pole make sure it is dead centre with the motor. There should be a mark or marking on the motor and on the dish to ensure it is dead on and then bolt up tight.
It is also a good idea to run the cable from the lnb to the motor now so it makes it easier while working on the ground and use some insulation tape to tape cable to lnb arm. Loosly tighten the lnb in the lnb holder so you can adjust you SCEW when aligning the dish. Make sure all connections are good and watertight.
Leave your dish declination for now.
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mount dish and motor to the pole between T & K Brackets and loosly nip up the bolts from back of motor.
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Alighning your dish
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Now you enter your latitude and longitude and input that information in to your receiver and then drive the motor to 0. or go to 0 and then go to your reference satellite. Mine us thor 0.8w but yours might be slightly different. There is a list on the internet of what your reference satellite should be. Now start searching for your satellite by moving the motor housing left and right and then moving dish declenation up and down till you find your satellite and get a good signal. Once happy bolt it all up. Now adjust your scew on your lnb by moving it slightly left or right and see how it affects the signal on your satellite.
If you have done it all right then go to the most westerly satellite you can receive and then go to the most easterly satellite you can receive and check signal and go through sat by sat and double check your signal. That way you can fine tune your installation and make it track the arc properly.
You only need to adjust your lnb skew on your reference satellite as your motor will take care of the skew for other satellites.
Make sure all cables are clipped to the wall and are tidy and waterproofed.
Now go have a beer and enjoy your new setup!
THIS IS ONLY A ROUGH GUIDE TO SHOW YOU HOW TO SET UP A MOTORISED DISH
BE SAFE, READ AND LEARN ASWELL AS THERE IS MANY RESOURCES ON THE INTERNET.
THIS GUIDE MAY BE REPRODUCED BUT MAY NOT BE EDITED!
FRUITBALL