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Originally Posted by lostinthewoods
I mounted a QPH-031 on mine by making an adapter out of a couple pieces of aluminum plate. Basically, removed the original lnb and attached a "bottom" plate to the original mounting. This had a semi-circular cutout in it. Placed the horn of the QPH in and sandwiched this with another plate on the top.
Been working great for at least two years.
Lost |
Hi.. I'm a bit curious as to why an adapter was needed? The Primestar dishes I've used wouldn't require any adapter. I was able to mount a
KUL1 into mine, and don't see any reason why my QPH-031 wouldn't have fit too.
I thought that perhaps the Primestar LNBF might be attached further or closer to the focal point, so that you needed the adapter to get the lnbf at the focal point, but I measured my old Primestar lnbf, and compared that to my KUL1 and QPH-031, and they are pretty much the same, except that I think the KUL1 had to be slid forward instead of back away from the dish, but I don't see why an adapter should be necessary.
Does this mean that there is a different style of lnbf holder on different Primestar dishes? I think I've had two different types of Primestar dishes, and both used what seemed to be the same lnbf, but there are probably other models.
Anyway, why was an adapter needed??