Bought the aldi sat can I motorize it ?

Kristok · 21-11-2006 01:03AM #1

Can the aldi satalite they did a few months ago be motorized or would i need to get a whole new dish ? If it can any pointers to sites where i can find out more ?

watty · 21-11-2006 09:51AM

The dish might be too small. Lidl have done every size dish from 43cm to 1200cm. I'm not familiar with quality of bracket or size of dish Aldi supplied.

Minimum of 80cm for a motor, plus a stronger wall mount bracket than Lidl usually supply.

Motek in satellite.ie or Metronic in Maplins.

You need Motor that does Diseqc 1.2 + GotoX. It is the receiver that does USALS, there is no such thing as a USALS motor.

If your receiver does USALS (may just call it GotoX, though that is different) You enter your lat and long into receiver and "USALS" is calculating the GotoX value for the motor for each satellite position automatically.

Washout · 21-11-2006 11:11AM

i have a motor installed on my LidL 80CM dish and it works no problem

racso77 · 22-11-2006 02:30PM

do you need a seperate power supply to operate the motorised dish or how does it work?

MisterAnarchy · 23-11-2006 01:38AM

racso77 wrote:

do you need a seperate power supply to operate the motorised dish or how does it work?

If the receiver is Disecq compatible it will power the motor.

watty · 23-11-2006 09:45AM

The faster more powerfull motors /actuators for very big dishes use 36V. For the "ordinary" dish and a Diseqc Motor, indeed it is powered via the coax. A separate short coax connects from LNB to Motor.

Some (most?) PC satellite cards can't manage the current of a Motoer properly.

Kristok · 23-11-2006 12:07PM

yea its the 80cm dish.

Washout where did you get your motor etc and can you give me specific models your using.

watty · 23-11-2006 09:53PM

Stab, Metronic, Motek will all be fine. Plenty of sources in Sticky. Check for sales in Maplin in near you.

Bought the aldi sat can I motorize it ?

Comments