I was bored yesterday.....had an idea

[stogie5150]

What if I could put three LNB's on a motorized 1m Primestar dish?

After about 6 hours, SHAZAM!

The universal LNB doesn't work that well, I think I need to do some re-engineering, I don't think its at the focal point of the dish.

 

[tvropro]

Cool pictures, would work on my 90cm Primestar.

 

[ussexplroer]

Hey what sats?

Very cool and what sats are you aimed at?

later,

Josh

 

[Diamond Jim]

.....had an idea

Now that scares the hell outta me.

Looks pretty neat, hope you get the bugs worked out.

 

[gabshere]

.....had an idea

Now that scares the hell outta me.

i agree now i don't know what he's pointed at either


It really scares me that he says this

SHAZAM!

now i expect to see him in a cape running around.... outside

 

[schlever]

What if I could put three LNB's on a motorized 1m Primestar dish?

After about 6 hours, SHAZAM!

The universal LNB doesn't work that well, I think I need to do some re-engineering, I don't think its at the focal point of the dish.

Nice bracket work Stogie, I'm going to have to bookmark this one.

I have a standard and circular on my motorized dish, and it works pretty good, but want to work on a better bracket system when it gets warm out a few months from now

 

[digiblur]

Very cool and what sats are you aimed at?

later,

Josh

It's motorized...whichever ones he has LOS to.

 

[lumpkin666]

It's motorized...whichever ones he has LOS to.

Now try to get USALS to understand what the heck it's supposed to do with that setup

 

[digiblur]

Now try to get USALS to understand what the heck it's supposed to do with that setup

Been there and done that until I got my QPH-031. You just have to figure out how many degrees to offset each bird.

 

[lumpkin666]

Been there and done that until I got my QPH-031. You just have to figure out how many degrees to offset each bird.

HA Ha! Excellent solution, so obvious and perfectly workable!

 

[stogie5150]

Now try to get USALS to understand what the heck it's supposed to do with that setup

Naaa...Digi had it right. I just use Disecq 1.2 to run the motor until it has signal, then store it.

.....had an idea

Now that scares the hell outta me.

Looks pretty neat, hope you get the bugs worked out.

I love you too.

I expect to see him in a cape running around.... outside

Hey by the time that was done I had three cups of coffee and two cigars so I had enough caffeine and nicotine to fly dang near it...

Nice bracket work Stogie, I'm going to have to bookmark this one.

I have a standard and circular on my motorized dish, and it works pretty good, but want to work on a better bracket system when it gets warm out a few months from now

The brackets are 1" wide by .125 thick steel, its surprising what you can do with a bench vise, a ball pein hammer and some time. Used the stainless steel bolts from a wrecked BUD I got awhile back. Only thing I bought was the conduit clamps and paint. Had to cut a piece of 1.250 plastic pipe to use as a spacer on the Universal LNB to get it to clamp right. I am gonna take that off and replace it with a stainless hose clamp so I can have more in and out adjustment to get the focal length right on that Universal.

Low buck Project, baby! :up

 

[Mr Tony]

I did that right before Turkey Day too

This was on my 30" motorized and some hose clamps
http://www.satelliteguys.us/free-air-fta-discussion/115356-standard-universal-dbs-one-dish.html

 

[Corrado]

Nice project and pics.

What kind of brackets are they? I was looking at some plumbing and conduit holders in Lowe's the other day with similar thoughts in mind.

 

[PopcornNMore]

Nice job! I have the same plastic feed support on my CM 1.2m dish. I will need to look into building some clamps for it as well.

 

[PopcornNMore]

Those clamps look like the galvanized clamps used for fence posts.

 

[stogie5150]

Uh uh. Steel conduit clamps. Painted black because...well....because I like it that way.

 

[Mr Tony]

stogie
is the Primestar LNB the stock one or did you add a different LNB to the flange?

 

[linuxman]

Nice work Guy!

Be careful and not too many cigars. We don't want a nicotine overdose.

I did my motorized like Iceberg. Only have one DBS hanging off the side with hose clamp and wire ties. Been on there over a year now and still working fine.

I offset mine 6.2 degrees in USALS from where it is supposed to be, and it work fine.

 

[stogie5150]

stogie
is the Primestar LNB the stock one or did you add a different LNB to the flange?

Its a Hughes Internet LNB.
Works as good as the QPH did on my dish.

 

[Tron]

I thought I saw a Hughes! Pound for pound, an absolutely wonderful LNB! I only wish there was a dual-output version. That's why there's a stacked Dish FSS LNB on my 1M Channel Master instead of a Hughes...