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delta_charlie
Last reply · posted in C-BAND Satellite Discussion
Hi all,

Here are some pictures of the HD (Hurricane Duty) mast bracket I
made last week using the MIG welder at work and put up this weekend.

My main concern was making it strong enough for a big wind from the
east. I had to use lag bolts and shields to attach it to the
concrete blocks and window top block. Lag bolts and shields tend to
be a little weak against pulling out so I also used some strong
construction glue to help hold the bracket. The glue set well and
I'm sure it will help add a lot of strength.

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Perhaps I over built it but if we get another hurricane it may hold and have been worth the effort.

BTW the top of the mast is about 5 feet above the roof, about as low as I could make it and still have the bottom of the dish clear the roof when pointing east. Should make a nice comfortable height to work from and I look forward to putting the BUD back together.

Later, DC
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Radioguy41
I like to overbuild and if it was me I think I'd add a brace to the left side and complete the big triangle. But that's just me. :)
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I am also in a area that gets it share of wind an hurricans S. Fl. an less than a mile from the Gulf, an let me say it is always best to over build you're pole an mount. now I build mounts almost the same as you did, but with 2 stand out bars an 2 gussets (the bars that brace it back to the wall), then I will either use 2 1/2" bolts to pull the 2-angles together or weld the pipe to the angle iron. an I like useing deads instead of the lead anchors, I have seen the lead anchors lousen up in time even with lock washers.

Now my main dish has been up 14 years at this home, an it has a 10 1/2 Micro-Dine commercal glass dish about 350 lbs. an that pole along with it mounts (2 of them) was over built. an it has 2 pipes that where inside of each other 3&1/2" od an 4"od an welded, then welded a 6ft peice of 4 1/2" od on the bottom that went in the concrete. then droped a 1" rebar down insede the pipe, an then filled the pipe with concrete. an we took alot of wind in 2004 with 3 huricans that year an messed up some parts on the dish but the pipe an all the mounting are fine.
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I would do two things. One you may have already done - put a rebar in there and fill the pipe up with ready mix concrete.

The other thing I would keep in mind is that a lot of the stress in wind will be twisting stresses. I'd consider running a weld around the curved end of your u-bolt, welding it to the mast.

After you get the dish aimed perfectly, I'd also mark the bracket and the mast with a punch. I wouldn't honk down hard on any bolts connecting the dish bracket mount to the mast. If it wants to twist, the dish and bracket will turn and the mast wont twist and get destroyed. If the dish twirls in the wind, just wait for a calm day, go up there and line the punch marks back up. This has been my method on my two big dish installations. I'm near the mountains and definitely get wind, Still, I haven't ever had to line my marks back up because of wind.

My installation is similar to yours in that the mast goes from the ground and is reinforced by the eaves and then goes about 5 feet above the roof line. It's just an added level of comfort, me knowing that, if a big wind twists it around, i won't have to replace an entire mast.
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We had a saying at work when making brackets, "If you think you need to make it out of 1/4", make it out of 3/8" instead." This was the complete opposite of a race car driver I know. His saying was, "If you think you need to make it out of 1/4", make it out of 3/16" instead." His concern was weight not reliability, our concern was reliability not weight.

Nice looking bracket by the way. I do concur with jeepguy though.
delta_charlie
Hi all, thanks for the replies. Wow - I thought I overbuilt it but maybe not. The 10 foot BUD that is going up is a mesh design and that should help but I may have to bring the MIG welder home and add a brace and weld the U-bolt.

Hurricane season is almost over for this year so I could put it off for next season but if I see a big one brewing I will have to get to it.

Take care, DC
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We have a Breakfast and Dinner thread so... :)
Continuing from the Breakfast thread, found Cornbread mix so ...
Yellow Cornbread Mix
2 Hatch Green Chiles -diced
1 Egg
2/3 cup of milk
add to greased pan
Bake for 400f 20-25 minutes(From instructions)
now to put together and try... this to go with pinto beans...
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Garlic cheese bread
Green beans
Apples
Chocolate Milk
Some weird noodles. ;)
(They have salad and a couple other fruits if wanted)
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Club sandwich and corn chowder. Iced tea.
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Chili dog bowl, water… (homemade chili)
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Leftover wanton soup and pork fried rice. Water.
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Sometimes a thread gets so many posts in it that is can cause issues for the server so that why today we introduce The Song Name Game Part 3!

So let the game continue!

The last song was added by Bobby who posted...

One Meat Ball - Andrews Sisters

CONTINUE ON AND HAVE FUN! WELCOME HOME TO SATELLITEGUYS.US!

Here are the original rules for the game as posted by WebbyDude back in 2006. http://www.satelliteguys.us/threads/68645-Song-Name-Game

Just name a song title and the band who performed it. The next person does the same thing, but needs to list a song title or band name which includes a word from the previous entry. Pick songs from any genre.

Example:

Long Live Rock and Roll -- Rainbow

Rainbow in the Dark -- Dio

Another example:

Ride the Lightning -- Metallica

Lightning Strikes -- Ozzy Osbourne


Get it?


An additional note: we all know that song titles, sometimes, use profane words. Because this is a family friendly website it is advised that you clean up that title up a bit. This is accomplished by using something like sh!t instead of the real word. Thanks....
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Last reply · posted in Computers and Gadgets
Lately my eight year old Dell laptop has been shutting off even when I have a full battery. I have had to keep it plugged up all the time to keep this from happening. Any idea what is causing this? I replaced the battery about three years ago.
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arlo
A recalibration might be needed. Even if it shows full, the individual cells may have become unbalaced. And the BMS chip in the battery reports false information to the pc.
Try this. Start it up in the bios/uefi and leave it there until the battery dies and it shuts off.
It might just keep running longer than in Windows. Or run for a short while and shut off.
If it's the first case. Probably just needs a balancing. If the latter, the pack might just be dead.
Not throwing stones but perhaps just a cheaply constructed battery with substandard cells. Could be.

Patience. Keep restarting it in bios/uefi until it won't fire up anymore.
Then plug the charger in and let it complete a full charge. And see what happens. If it's better.
Do the same thing one more time. Run it until it dies dead-dead. Then just let it charge, pc shut off.
When charged, it might be better. It might not be.

There are bench jigs that read the actual BMS and override it to let a tech manually monitor and charge the separate packs. They can also reset any "time bombs" in it that cause an otherwise good pack to show bad.
Maybe Santa will be good to me some year.

You might just need a new battery. Maybe the PC power management chip is going. A Dell common thing.
Leaving a laptop plugged in with a full battery is known to reduce the life. Asus for one recommends that you don't leave the charger plugged in all of the time even when shut down. And setting Windows to charge the battery to 85% instead of 100% increases life.
That's all I got.
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That's all I got.
That was quite enough....I definitely learned something from your post. Thanks
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
If you can't get into the router to reserve an IP address just don't use DHCP on the device that needs connected and assign it to a specific IP address in the network settings.
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I set up a music server for my brother a few years ago. It's basically a small headless computer but it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
They are not. Your best bet is to set up a third-party router, attached to the Starlink for your server, that you can get into, like a Linksys, etc
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…it needs to have a DHCP IP address reserved for it in the router settings. This was easy to do in his DSL router. He's switching to Starlink now and I was wondering if these setting are easily accessible in the Starlink router. I'm pretty sure he will be getting the latest V5 router.
The Starlink V5 Install Kit I just got comes with the Mini Router. It is pretty limited in what it can do. For example, it can provide only one IP subnet at a time, no Guest Network, but it does support the pass-thru to a third-party Router. You can also split the Wi-Fi into separate 5 GHz & 2.4 GHz SSIDs to help some IoT devices that don't support 5 GHz bands to work.

The larger Starlink Router that still comes with the V4 Kit does support a Guest Network with separate IPv4 Subnet, but it's $120 from Starlink. And it still won't do DHCP Reservations.
harshness
If you can restrict the DHCP address space to assign addresses to one end of the subnet (i.e. x.x.x.50+), you can manually assign the IP address on pretty much any operating system. This is a default behavior on several popular routers. As the Router Mini only supports 235 devices, I expect that's already done.

Another option is to use a router that supports PoE to power the antenna. This article discusses that option (under PoE Power heading):

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Now that I've had the v5 kit with the Mini Router, it's not as bad as I first thought. Yes, no DHCP reservations, but you can set up multiple SSIDs that have separate IPv4 subnets, and like the big brother, you can select from 192.168.x.0/24 or 10.x.0.0/16 (where "x" is 1-4).

You can also split a subnet and have different SSIDs for the 5 GHz and 2.4 GHz channels to handle some IoT devices. I haven't discovered what subnet the 2nd NIC on the router assigns, I'm guessing it's the first subnet.
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Sorry for posting the wrong link. Just corrected it.
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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

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Terrible tragedy. You would think that they would have safe guards in place that would prevent something like this from happening. I guess if you are going to ride in a passenger train it might be best to get a car near the rear.

They will have to look at the switching sections to determine WHY 2 trains were on the same track ... at the same time.
dishstaller
Thought this article might be of interest to some of you who might travel via train.