What Motor for my 1m dish

**red devil** · 20th February, 2009, 02:42 PM

Hi guys, could u please recommend a good quality motor for my 1m dish, not the best quality but the best/reasonbly priced one and maybe a company that will post to Irl.

**Fano** · 20th February, 2009, 03:19 PM

I just bought a 1m motorised system .
Its a Gibertini aluminium dish,its absolutely huge,its far bigger than I imagined,I might have to distract the missus while I put it up.
I can only imagine her wrath when she sees it,I have it hidden away in the garage at the moment.
I am putting in on the East facing wall where its sheltered so I opted for a Diseqc motor which should be ok.
I went for a Moteck 2100A but there are other makes available,Dark Motor,Clarke Belt,Technomate,all pretty similar ,some have nylon gears,some metal .
Other options are a polar mount and actuator which is sturdier but noisier and slightly more expensive as you need a V-Box .
At the top of the scale then is the H-H Mount like the Jaeger 1224 but that is expensive and pretty cumbersome.
If the site is sheltered a Diseqc motor should be suitable.
Ebay is prob your best bet.

**red devil** · 20th February, 2009, 03:32 PM

Hi Fano
Thanks for ur input, gonna put up the dish on sun wen herself is gone and maybe she wont notice it wen she comes home

same story as u m8, ive 2" pole fairly sheltered gonna try on diff sats just to mess wit it b4 i get motor

**krazylegz** · 20th February, 2009, 03:42 PM

stab motors are one of the best m8..something like this HIGH QUALITY ITALIAN MADE STAB H 100 DiSEqC DISH MOTOR on eBay, also, Dishes, Satellite Cable Freeview, Consumer Electronics (end time 15-Mar-09 13:53:24 GMT)

i have a technomate TM-2200 and Technomate TM-2200 Super Motor DiSEqC 1.2 and USALS on eBay, also, Dishes, Satellite Cable Freeview, Consumer Electronics (end time 19-Mar-09 13:05:35 GMT) been spot on for me in the 3 years i've had it

**red devil** · 20th February, 2009, 04:47 PM

Thanks guys,
a few good options here but still havin trouble findin a company to post to ireland for a resonable price, most ive asked are lookin for £30 to £50 for postage !!!

**Fano** · 20th February, 2009, 09:11 PM

Two good sites to buy off are H****.de and DVB-Shop24.net ,both based in Germany.
Shipping is ~20 euro off each and their prices are excellent.
I'm based in Ireland too,Cork.

I didnt hide the dish well enough ,swmbo found it this afternoon and said that "That flying saucer isnt going up on my house"

**.: JaCkPoT :.** · 20th February, 2009, 09:44 PM

Technomate motor is very quick..the 2200

**red devil** · 21st February, 2009, 10:12 PM

Thanks sadiq
another quick one, in the shed today i found an old apollo lnb with a date on it from 1994, would this possibly work now as i remember usin it for an analogue system years ago

**krazylegz** · 21st February, 2009, 10:14 PM

it would be advisable to get a new universal lnb as the ends are different on the old ones and with it being so old its probably quite poor by todays standards, u can get a good 0.2db HD compatible for next to nowt m8

**red devil** · 21st February, 2009, 11:51 PM

sorry m8 should have asked this earlier but ive got s few sly lnb's lying around will they work ?

**witchy** · 21st February, 2009, 11:56 PM

I dunno what my motor is, but it's a cracker and I got it for 25 quid on eBay - sold as 2nd hand but had never been used

**.: JaCkPoT :.** · 22nd February, 2009, 01:32 AM

Originally Posted by red devil

sorry m8 should have asked this earlier but ive got s few sly lnb's lying around will they work ?

No it will not work..the lnb only looks at a small bit of the dish, enough to cover a mini dish but this means your dish will only work like a mini dish..even if you had a 2.4m dish and had a sky lnb you would struggle to pick up digitv..
Hope you understand what i mean

**red devil** · 22nd February, 2009, 05:45 PM

yep I get wat ur sayin m8, just ordered a hd compatible one from maplins, and gonna order a tm 2200 motor tomorrow, thanks for all the advice guys

**red devil** · 23rd February, 2009, 10:07 PM

Thanks to all for ur input while i was gatherin info but here is another quick one, got lnb today, dish locked on thor usin ccam everything lookin ok, just wonderin are there any other channels that will open on thor wit a different cam ?