Motorise zone 2 dish

[duglish]

Is it possible and is it easy to do?

Could someone give me a little guide to point me in the right direction?

[ramjet]

not easy as it doesnt have elevation adjustment

you are better off buying a triax or gilbertini or similar dishes

[duglish]

Mine came with elevation adjustment. The dish that is?

[ramjet]

not all these dishes have the same bracketry

if you feel that you can attach the one you have to a motor and adjust the dish then go ahead and try it, but I think its a suck it and see approach as none of the sly dishes I have come across will marry up to the motor mounts of stab or darkmotor or technomate motors , maybe yours is different ?

if not I suggest you buy and use the proper dish which is designed for the job, like triax or gilbertini or similar

there is no easy answer due to the different models of dish and bracketry that sly have used over the years, and you seem to assume they are all the same with no design changes

[digicon]

you will need to modify the bracket slightly on a Zone 2 as a motor stub is around 2" and the Zone 2 is a tight fit on a 2" diameter pole. It can be done its just a little fiddly thats all.

Probably better with ramjets advice and get a dish suitable for the Job Triax, Orbital, Gibertini etc...

[duglish]

Ok you are both right had an absolute mare with this!!! Lol.

Might aswell take this dish down and give it to someone as it's like a month old. (The Multi LNB setup I done)

Should of just went for the motorised the first time!!!

Which dish would you recommend?

Cheers, Dan.

[digicon]

What size are you looking at

[duglish]

This is only for the footy so whatever will get me most stuff.


0.8W / 16E / 23.5E / 13E / 19.2E / 30W?

Would a Penta 68CM get these?

[digicon]

Should be ok dont scrimp on the LNB (black ultra), Nordic beam on 0.8? west may just be borderline on that dish.

[ramjet]

as mentioned above, use the inverto ultra black lnb to give the best possible results

as for dishes , I would have thought an 80cm or 88cm triax like a TD88, or a similar gilbertini, but am sure there are other makes that will suffice

the zone 2 are excellent fixed dishes for 42e , 28e , 19e , 13e and 30w. I use one with an octo on 28e and a motorised triax td110 using a darkmotor and inverto ultrablack

if you buy quality you never regret it, so although my dish is many years old its on its 3rd motor and maybe its 4th lnb, hopefully the last for some considerable time

[duglish]

Supplier has a Triax 80CM for me should I just go with this?

I'm thinking though in the mean time as it's for the football.

Liverpool V Tottenham is on 30W on Wednesday.

if I get home tonight and sort this out I should be able to get 30W correct?

[ramjet]

sounds ok to me on both counts

[duglish]

What should the LNB skew be adjusted to to get 30W? I know for 28 is offset at 3?

[Manic01]

Use dishpointer for fixed dish skew.

[ramjet]

What should the LNB skew be adjusted to to get 30W? I know for 28 is offset at 3?

well, given that 28e is nearly 30 east and has an offset of 3, you would think that 30w needs an offset of the opposite which is minus 3 , so it will be skewed the other way by the same amount (anti clockwise)

and for thor at 0.8w it would be zero which is how we usually setup a motorised dish