Solid or Mesh dish?

[Ferret.]

Okay, so my 80cm motorised dish is up. Lack of clearing channels finally pushed me into making the jump to a multi-sat set-up. And wow, what a selection of things to watch...

Only regret is not doing it sooner.

Tidy job that mate 👍

 

[mixin247]

Tidy job that mate 👍

Thanks, going to take the minidish down another day. Left it up incase the installation went Pete Tong.

 

[manic01]

Thanks, going to take the minidish down another day. Left it up incase the installation went Pete Tong.

Put the sky dish and motorised set up through a diseqc switch.
If 28e comes back it will be better to have 28e always available and the motorised for all other sats.

 

[mixin247]

Put the sky dish and motorised set up through a diseqc switch.
If 28e comes back it will be better to have 28e always available and the motorised for all other sats.

Can you run a motor through a switch aswell? Might not be a bad idea.

 

[manic01]

Can you run a motor through a switch aswell? Might not be a bad idea.

Yes I do.

 

[mixin247]

Yes I do.

Perfect, I might look into that then. Switch could go behind the box as I have shotgun coax. One from minidish and one from technomate.

 

[manic01]

Perfect, I might look into that then. Switch could go behind the box as I have shotgun coax. One from minidish and one from technomate.

Needs setting up like this

 

[mixin247]

Needs setting up like this

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Ahh okay, I would of wired that wrong. Thank you for sharing.

 

[bmitie]

Thanks for great pics and manic for neat diagram. You are well sorted now.👍

 

[mixin247]

I'm actually amazed how many English channels are across all the satellites. Currently watching Discovery on 9e.

Thank you everyone for your help, its certainly supercharged my Viark 4k STB.

 

[cokeaddict]

Needs setting up like this

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How does that work?

 

[cokeaddict]

I think this would work better.

 

[Abu Baniaz]

I blew several switches until Rob van der does told me to put the switch after the motor. Maybe cheap switches, but they were abut £10 a pop. The picture uploaded by Manic is the better setup in my experience.

 

[manic01]

Thanks for great pics and manic for neat diagram. You are well sorted now.👍

Not my work, saw it posted 2013 by Abu and bookmarked it.

 

[cokeaddict]

I blew several switches until Rob van der does told me to put the switch after the motor. Maybe cheap switches, but they were abut £10 a pop. The picture uploaded by Manic is the better setup in my experience.

I've never lost a switch, cheap or otherwise (splitters, yes, but not diseqc switches), but either way, i'd rather risk a cheap easy to replace switch, than an relatively expensive and pain in the arse to swap out, motor.

I don't see how pushing all the lnb's through the motor is a better option.

 

[kippysat]

I struggled to find anything over 80cm that's readily available. Looks like triax, technomate etc have stopped making them.

You can still source 85cm, 90cm, 97cm and 100cm from stores. One is in Manchester and the other is in Ireland.
I can't name them in the open forum as it would be against the rules.