i will be watching this thread closely can you guess what i found
they make a adapter mounting plate, i know i have one or two here
Whats that for, George?
i will be watching this thread closely can you guess what i found
they make a adapter mounting plate, i know i have one or two here
I have attached three lists pertaining to Paraclypse. One grouping is some of the newsletters from 1994. The next has newsletters from 1996, and the last is a price list for paraaclypse, some patriot, and other dishes from the year 2000.
These are provided for informational purposes only and were obtianed from the old paraclypse site when it was on the web.
Some of the information still applies to this day while some of it may be dated.
Use at your own risk.
Whats that for, George?
its for adapting a ku lnb to the 1 meter prime* feedhorn
The LNB I have will bolt right up to the P* flange. They just bolted the round lnb kind of crossways in the square flange of the c/ku setup..looks stupid and it can't work too well but that's how they did it.
Stogie,
At one time Paraclypse upgraded their mesh to smaller holes in order to get better Ku reception. It appears that you do not have that upgrade on your dish. Let me reassure you that you will do fine with that mesh. My dish receives all ku feeds that I have attempted to receive.
The reason I mention the mesh stuff, is that they also changed how the mesh was mounted on the trusses. The original had the mesh sort of set on the surface of the truss along a grooved rib. Once all of the clips were installed there was a plastic strip that then snapped in to the grove to secure the edges of the mesh.
If you do not remove the plastic, you may find that it is almost impossible to reinstall mesh where you need to do so.
Removal of those strips can usually be accomplished by sliding them out of the rib. With the aluminum there may be some corrosipon issues, but if you can save the strips and then reuse them it would be to your advantage in keeping a parabolic surface.
The manual I posted does not discuss these retaining strips as that particular model did not incorporate them.
Later modifications to the Paraclypse design incorporated grooves on the sides of the trusses into which the mesh would slide. Then the mesh was clipped to the support rings. When they made that version they went to a denser mesh which increased the metal to 55 percent instead of 37 percent..
I have an even older manual for the paraclypse that did not incorporate any type of groove or plastic cap material to secure the mesh. Apparently they used a "U" shaped wire to hold the mesh down on the trusses. In addition it had a button hook type feed.
I was looking in the manual you posted, mauiguy, and I saw that Paraclipse suggests a 3.5 inch pipe for the 12 footer. I noticed that the paraclipse that I am working on has what looks like an aluminum sleeve over the pipe all the way to the ground, with setscrews on all sides of the sleeve every foot or so. Is this sleeve attached to the mount in some way? In other words once I get the dish off the mount is that sleeve going to come off with the motor/mount assembly? Or will the mount assembly separate from the tube?
New plan, five guys, no tractor, we attack at dawn. Wish us luck. I am bringing my wife along to take pics.
I looked at the sleeve closer today, it looks like a full length. While I have the help tomorrow I may try to get the mount off the pole....
If I don't post by dark send the rescue squad. Digiblur and Linuxman both have my cell number.....
Mauiguy, check out the length of the pipe sticking out of the concrete in the last pic. Thats ALL the pipe the sleeve was holding onto....I don't know HOW that dish made it through Katrina.
One thing about that short pipe. I know it had to make for an easy removal.
And to think that my polar mount (which is a full sleeve mount) has a pole that sticks about six feet into the ground and about seven feet above ground level.....
Congratulations on getting the thing taken down. Pictures are great. Hope to see more when you get it re-installed.
Aloha..
Nice project STogie!
Wonder how much beer he had to buy, those are big fellows lol.