Help Correctly Aligning My 1.2M Channel Master Dish and moteck H-H180 motor

Quote from jenseneverest

I would think so Dan, either some square tube or 90 degree angle iron...

its hard to gauge just from the pics, you would need to measure to see if the bolt holes from the dish face fall inline / outside of the mounts holes.

If not then some wider angle iron (say 50mm x 50mm x 2mm thick) would give you more freedom on the where to drill the holes for the bolts, allowing you to make it wider / narrower as required. Try to get it as central as possible.

ok thanks just doesnt make sense why i would need that as the brackets that came with it should work with it, but i will get the iron bar to test it first hopefully it will work, also it cant be to long otherwise it will effect the movement of the dish up and down

Quote from jenseneverest

As said, i have never used one before like that, your manual has no pictures of anything like that mount either.

Could it work like you have it ? Yes if you get all your angles correct.

You have to remember your dealing with a lot of angles here:

Dish offset, elevation, DE inclination, etc etc

As i said earlier, even if you had no scales to work to it could still be done with angle finders / gauges and lots of maths.

(as it stands with your current bracket - one of the adjustment you have has no scale and is variable)

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ok will give it a go thanks

Quote from geowhitt

Dan i found more pics for you also i wil get me mount out of te shed and take a couple of pics for you.

Dont buy anything yet lets see what we have first.

As you can see the way the dish mounts you have taken on a big job fitting a motorised dish.

You could do with some items like a sat finder a cheap inclinometer you will find it hard without some tools.

thanks, i do have a xfinder3 (sat finder) so i can use that, also by using my ring doorbell pointing at my monitor while im outside i can see when the signal goes up on my octagon sf8008 :)

any idea where this was taken?

Quote from jenseneverest

geowhitt

Nice find , this pic :

Looks like it is attached to a channel master dish face.....

So i am now thinking those brackets that Dan has are going to work (perhaps they are even required due to an offset dish - perhaps not required with prime focus ??)

What is certain is he is going to need an inclinometer and angle finder.

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same dish same motor etc as mine

Quote from jenseneverest

There is enigma2 signal finder apps for android phones (they work if both phone and STB connected to the same wifi network)

Thats what i use all the time now.....sorry no idea if anything like that exists for apple phones

https://play.google.com/store/…p.signalmeter&hl=en&gl=US

not on google play store uk for my phone

hey guys so i have just been back outside and reattached and ajusted everything (see pics what its like now) but still no signal) :(

@jenseneverest just downloaded from elsewhere, nice pics but how does that help me? so your saying to measure the front of the dish face to see where its pointing to? as i dont have those items you have...

as far as i can tell this is all correct but no signal on 0.8w or any other sats?

what did i miss? only thing i could imagine is wrong maybe the Clinometer?? but i dont no what number to move it to??

i think my declination angle is correct:

i also think my elevation angle is correct:

i dont have a Clinometer device for precise angles, but there is one attached to the motor anyways, maybe thats what i need, but im am using "enigma signal meter- sat finder" installed on my phone which is connected to my ocagon sf8008 via wifi, so i can see when the signal goes up and down

according to the manual (see pic below)

Quote from geowhitt

Dan see if the LNB off the other dish will fit the new dish, this is why you need a sat meter.

What i have done in the past is take a small tv and STB out side and set the dish up but as its winter i would not do it.

@geowhitt it will thats the one that came with this dish, but the lnb thats now attached to this dish can capture lower feeds hence why i changed it over, i cant do that either due to the motor control cable running from my vbox in my bedroom, up through the loft and out into the garden and into the motor...

Quote from jenseneverest

Dan i have your site Latitude at 52 degrees

is so.....then From the manual :

your elevation is 38 degrees

your deinclation is 6 degrees

Its hard to read your scales off the pics you posted, but to me it looks like your elevation is currently set at 70 degrees and deinclination at 7 ??

PLUS then you still have the adjustment with no scale - (The dish face to motor mount bracket is also adjustable....)

Have you got an angle finder like in the pics i posted above? ...... to at least get the dish face round abouts the right angle ?

Then you still need to move the entire dish/mount on its pole east and west until you get signal

Every time you move things and are trying to check for signal, zap to a channel again with your e2 box.

Dont expect to do this quickly, your basically looking for a needle in a hay stack until your get signal from something...

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@geowhitt LNB Is working fine i just switched them over again!

Hey @jenseneverest

yes i will now go back outside and set these angles

Latitude at 52 degrees, elevation is 38 degrees, deinclination is 6 degrees

what do you mean? "The dish face to motor mount bracket is also adjustable" i cant adjust it for some reason :(, no i dont have a angle finder like the ones u posted pics of, what do you mean "Then you still need to move the entire dish/mount on its pole east and west until you get signal" < i can only move ir east and west via my octagon sf8008,

so this is 6 degrees on the deinclination (line i drew) (just so i know)

which elevation? where i drew red line or green line (just so i know)

and it wont allow me to move this down anymore than it already is:

what about this scale? because when i move the motor arms forward and back that moves aswell its known as Clinometer

as you can see it only goes from 0-90 degrees but i need to set it to "38 degrees" so how can i set it to 38?? it moves the motor back and forwards when i adjust it like that

you can see why im struggling here cant you??

Quote from jenseneverest

1. Ensure the pole / ground mount that everything bolts to is perfectly vertical

2. setup dish elevation / deinclination.

3. Check dish face is roughly the right angle as above.

4. motor should be moved to 0.8w (or if the vbox is not setup yet use 0.8w as your starting point - save it as 0.8w that is about the zero point in the middle of east / west)

5. loosen the mount clamps for the entire motor/dish mount on your pole so you can move the dish left or right to find signal.

If still no signal adjust the dish face SLIGHTLY to either get move / or less angle on its face - then move the the entire mount left/ right again looking for signal

Repeat the above process several times until you get signal.....moving only slightly each time, and zapping to a channel each time you change things.

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thanks but did you read my complete post? with pics??