Stab vs Digipower Motors: Which to use?

cyberham

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Jun 16, 2010
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In the mail coming to me are a couple of motors. I have a shipment with one Stab HH120 and one Digipower SG2100 en route to me. The Stab is new in the box; the Digipower is used but in good condition. Which motor would you install if given this choice? I'm going to use one of these initially for my second motorized Ku system.

I know the Stab moves slowly. This is likely its greatest disadvantage. But its mounting stub points upward which is an advantage if you want to change the dish. It's easier to drop a dish by yourself downward onto an upward-pointing stub than to pull a dish up onto a downward pointing stub as the Digipower has.

An advantage of the Digipower is that I've use one for over 10 years so I'm familiar with its idiosyncracies. It also has a reset button to use when things don't seem to be working correctly. The Stab doesn't as far as I know.

I already know which one I'm going to use at least initially. But I wonder what others would do?
 

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