UPDATE 23/1/24: (Grieving a family loss today - BE KIND!!)
So today i have done the following! < SURPRISED?? <
- Removed the faceplate from my dish
Good! - Taken 5 Pictures of the faceplate showing it from all angles! < so you know what it actually looks like!!) (SEE PICS 2,3,4, & 7)
Good! - Reattached the dish faceplate to the motor brackets (at the top ONLY!) (SEE PICS 1, 6 & 8) (Pic 6 & 8 are taken from the top looking down!, Pic 5 is taken from the right hand side; looking at it, pic 1 is taken from the left hand side; looking at it (in case you are wondering!)
Good! Wondering if the pole is absolutely plumb. If it is, no need for pictures.
And the scale on the motor closest to the pole, your elevation angle. Is set.
If you were to hold your inclinometer in line to an imaginery line that goes right through the center of the motor shaft. It should match your elevation angle. Can you put a pic up of that?
There should be two dimples on each end of the motor shaft. Use those for your degree measurement.
- I also put my inclinometer on the faceplate as well to show you the current angle it is (currently 60 degrees I KNOW ITS MENT TO BE AT 90 but that's the best I could do in this wind and rain!!) (SEE PIC 8)
To Me My Pic 5 (the dish plate now needs to go either forward at the top to 90 degrees or i need some longer brackets??
No. Actually I would. For a starting point. See if you can loosen the top bolts and reduce the angle so that your inclinometer reads the motor shaft angle.
If you can do this. We can save some math and you will get a better understanding.
In other words. Put your gauge on the flat motor plate and make the angle the same as the latitude (elevation) angle on the pole indicator.
Please forget the 90 degrees thing for now.
The red lines. No need for 100% accuracy for the red line going through the motor shaft. As close as you can visually.
Photo and showing the angle or you telling me the reading you got.
Red line on the dish mount. The same reading you get on the face of it.
Make the skinny red line match the fat motor angle shaft. Please.
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And get back. I had a few service calls this morning. I'm free now.
Things I KNOW I STILL NEED TO DO:
- Make sure the faceplate is at 90 degrees instead of 60 (BY ADDING A WEDGE BETWEEN PLATE AND DISH' See pic below this line) YES OR NO? also drilling holes higher up the mounting plate like in this pic (bit up from bottom?)
- Drill 2 holes 1 in each side of the lower mounting bracket (gold part at the bottom, not currently bolted on) YES I KNOW !
- Bolt my dish to the faceplate from the bottom keeping it at 90 degrees (forward by 10 degrees) adding a wedge of wood or something behind the top part (to stop it falling back on itself) & Try to realign to Thor 0.8w....?
- IM STILL WAITING ON MY NEW INCLINOMETER TO ARRIVE DUE TO THE CURRENT ONE BEING DAMAGED (Keeps falling off)!!
- Oh and wipe the mud of the parts that have mud on them & take Fragile tape of.
- Oh & Add the new Slabs to the ground mount once they arrive & remove the bags of stones & make the ground level (somehow)......
- Oh & have a chilling good time once its all set up! :)
- I HOPE THERE ISNT MUCH MORE TO DO AFTER I DONE THESE STEPS.... ??!! :)
- & Say thanks to you guys for helping! ;)
P.S; My Picture 1 doesn't look to far off from this pic: (DOES IT)?
IF YOU LOOK AT PICTURE 1 YOU WILL SEE WHAT I MEAN!!
THESE NEXT FEW STEPS IM HOPING TO HAVE COMPLETED BY THE END OF THE WEEK/EARLY NEXT WEEK
(WORK & WEATHER DEPENDENT)!!
Anything Else?
I HOPE THIS PROVES IM LISTENING AND READING ALL YOUR REPLYS!!
@supwiddiss
@jenseneverest
@BanjoXo71
I'm still 100% committed to this are you for helping me??!!
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Hi,
(Your Replys White, Mine Red)
"No. Actually I would. For a starting point. See if you can loosen the top bolts and reduce the angle so that your inclinometer reads the motor shaft angle."
Loosen the two bolts from the 2 brackets that are holding the dish plate on? at the min i haven't drilled new holes in the bottom lower mounting arm (will do when it stops raining) If we can get the measured angles. Holes may not have to be drilled. But I would like you to just do it anyway.
I'm surprised you couldn't just bring everything inside a garage or spot in your home. No rain inside and it's warm.
"If you can do this. We can save some math and you will get a better understanding."
HOPE SO!
"In other words. Put your gauge on the flat motor plate and make the angle the same as the latitude (elevation) angle on the pole indicator."
URM..... SO I Put my INCLINOMETER in the dish faceplate (like i did i pic 8??) making sure its at what number? 52 degrees??
Yeah. Exactly like the picture shows. If your latitude is supposed to be X degrees. And you set the pole indicator to that.
Then an imaginary line through the center of the motor shaft will be the same.
And you lower the dish faceplate to the same exact angle.
Not to confuse you but we could attain the same thing if you just set the pole indicator at 0.
That would put a bubble level and hopefully your angle gauge level.
The motor shaft would be 0 degrees too. Level.
And the dish faceplate could be set at the same 0 angle.
Is that something you could do without a bunch of back and forth?
"Please forget the 90 degrees thing for now."
why?
Because that was another way of thinking. Let's not complicate things any more for you.
Let's just do it my way. You need to master this. And if you do any more setups like this. Hopefully it will make sense and be easier.
Deal? Don't overthink things. Listen to me and me only now.
"The red lines. No need for 100% accuracy for the red line going through the motor shaft. As close as you can visually."
OK.....
"Photo and showing the angle or you telling me the reading you got."
OK.....
"Red line on the dish mount. The same reading you get on the face of it."
OK.....
"Make the skinny red line match the fat motor angle shaft. Please."
OK HOW?.....
Well. The slotted adjusters. Loosen bolts and see if you can do it. Please.
And if not. Still lay your inclinometer on the plate and give me a pic and the readings you get.
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PLEASE EDIT ONE OF MY NEW PICS SO I CAN SEE IT THANKS!