My first Sat dish install :-)

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:44:00 +0100, Alan
wrote:

In message , Marky P
wrote

As it's unlikely that I've aligned it perfectly through guesswork,
I'll shimmy back up there to neaten things up when I get my Freesat
telly.

Didn't you say that you had a sat finder? Did you use that connected to
a 12-18V power supply (car battery, 10 off AA batteries etc.) ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qMbb....satcure.co.uk
/tech/satmeter.htm

Never thought of that! Haven't used my sat finder yet as I thought I
needed power from a sat receiver, but I have a DTT meter that outputs
a 12v supply, so I could use that! Up the ladder I go!

Marky P.

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 13:14:34 +0100, Marky P
wrote:

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:44:00 +0100, Alan
wrote:

In message , Marky P
wrote

As it's unlikely that I've aligned it perfectly through guesswork,
I'll shimmy back up there to neaten things up when I get my Freesat
telly.

Didn't you say that you had a sat finder? Did you use that connected to
a 12-18V power supply (car battery, 10 off AA batteries etc.) ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qMbb....satcure.co.uk
/tech/satmeter.htm

Never thought of that! Haven't used my sat finder yet as I thought I
needed power from a sat receiver, but I have a DTT meter that outputs
a 12v supply, so I could use that! Up the ladder I go!

Marky P.

It didn't work :-( The meter powered the Sat Finder when it wasn't
connected to the LNB, but nothing with LNB connected :-( Maybe my DTT
meter's supply isn't powerful enough.

Marky P.

"Marky P" wrote in message
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 10:44:00 +0100, Alan
wrote:

In message , Marky P
wrote

As it's unlikely that I've aligned it perfectly through guesswork,
I'll shimmy back up there to neaten things up when I get my Freesat
telly.

Didn't you say that you had a sat finder? Did you use that connected to
a 12-18V power supply (car battery, 10 off AA batteries etc.) ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qMbb....satcure.co.uk
/tech/satmeter.htm

Never thought of that! Haven't used my sat finder yet as I thought I
needed power from a sat receiver, but I have a DTT meter that outputs
a 12v supply, so I could use that! Up the ladder I go!

It might not have the current capacity for an LNB. But try it. I didn't
mention a masthead amp psu for that reason.

Bill

"Marky P" wrote in message
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It didn't work :-( The meter powered the Sat Finder when it wasn't
connected to the LNB, but nothing with LNB connected :-( Maybe my DTT
meter's supply isn't powerful enough.

I did wonder.

Bill

"Alan" wrote in message
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In message , Marky P
wrote

As it's unlikely that I've aligned it perfectly through guesswork,
I'll shimmy back up there to neaten things up when I get my Freesat
telly.

Didn't you say that you had a sat finder? Did you use that connected to a
12-18V power supply (car battery, 10 off AA batteries etc.) ?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qMbb....satcure.co.uk
/tech/satmeter.htm

Funny how that wrapped link works
without repair. Didn't recognise Martin without his bald head!

Serious comment: no fuse at the battery end of the connecting wire
Car batteries will happily provide 100A to a short circuit. At the very
least improvise a fuse by making the connection to one pole
of the battery with a single strand of flex.
Also I am surprised at his suggested technique, I would have said
set the elevation first because the beamwidth is wider in the vertical
plain and you have a scale to set it with, then swing the azimuth
to acquire the bird.

--
Graham.

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On 19/07/2008 14:58, Graham. wrote:

"Alan" wrote:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qMbb....satcure.co.uk
/tech/satmeter.htm

Funny how that wrapped link works without repair.

No really, all it needs is

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9qMbbi2l9JA

Andy Burns wrote:
On 19/07/2008 14:58, Graham. wrote:

"Alan" wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qMbb....satcure.co.uk

/tech/satmeter.htm

Funny how that wrapped link works without repair.

No really, all it needs is

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9qMbbi2l9JA

Where's part 2, Martin talks about showing us how to find the correct
satellite 'later', but where's the video ?

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Mark
Please replace invalid and invalid with gmx and net to reply.

On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:19:43 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:
On 19/07/2008 14:58, Graham. wrote:

"Alan" wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qMbb....satcure.co.uk

/tech/satmeter.htm

Funny how that wrapped link works without repair.

No really, all it needs is

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9qMbbi2l9JA

Where's part 2, Martin talks about showing us how to find the correct
satellite 'later', but where's the video ?

I wondered that too. Anyway, I used a 12v wallwart to power the sat
finder and I wasn't far out with my guesswork! Only needed a slight
knock and it was perfect. I noticed that tightening the bolts causes
the dish to go out of alignment, so I offset it first, then tightened
the bolts to bring the dish back into alignment. Just got to wait for
my telly to arrive (should be next Saturday).

I put an extra bit of tape on the boom arm too :-)

Marky P.

tony sayer wrote:
All in all he'd make a first class Sky dish installer then;!...

Looks like they have similar installers in the USA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ9dHTPXzKU&NR=1

Chris

"Marky P" wrote in message
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On Sat, 19 Jul 2008 15:19:43 +0100, Mark Carver
wrote:

Andy Burns wrote:
On 19/07/2008 14:58, Graham. wrote:

"Alan" wrote:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qMbb....satcure.co.uk

/tech/satmeter.htm

Funny how that wrapped link works without repair.

No really, all it needs is

http://youtube.com/watch?v=9qMbbi2l9JA

Where's part 2, Martin talks about showing us how to find the correct
satellite 'later', but where's the video ?

I wondered that too. Anyway, I used a 12v wallwart to power the sat
finder and I wasn't far out with my guesswork! Only needed a slight
knock and it was perfect. I noticed that tightening the bolts causes
the dish to go out of alignment, so I offset it first, then tightened
the bolts to bring the dish back into alignment. Just got to wait for
my telly to arrive (should be next Saturday).

I put an extra bit of tape on the boom arm too :-)


Well done. Hopfully you won't have found Hotbird or Astra 19.2
by mistake.
--
Graham.

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