Your dealer is correct if he/she is talking about
STab 90 mount. The Stab 100 is able to drive a dish up to 1m, 1.2m for Stab 120. In fact, Stab mounts are very well-built compare to other brands. I am using a Stab100 to drive a 1m dish for almost a year, no problem at all.
Yes, there is a trick to make it far East or West, in other words make it to tracks only half of the arc.
Example:
Let say your due south sat is SBS6 at 79W, due to the rotation limitation, h-h mount can't see G10R. So instead of using SBS6 as your true south sat, you can use G11 is your "highest sat" of the arc, the mount will be able to see G10R. No change for h-h mount elevation angle, which is the your lat deg. The 2 things should be change are:
1. Dish elevation.
2. lnbf skew.
Off course, by doing this, the mount only track half of the arc (starting from G11 toward the West for this example).
Michael
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Originally Posted by rckowal
Thanks for the reply.
HH90 is probably too light duty for my 95cm dish. In fact, my dealer told me that none of the Stab HH series are recommended for this dish size. He also said that warranties are no longer being honored by Stab when this size dish is used.
Seems to me there should be a way to "trick" the motor by setting the (south) azimuth reference to a more westerly position - like maybe 200 degrees. Then using Diseqc 1.2, re-program receiver to think that 200 is really 180 south. Granted, you would give something up on the easterly side of the range but that may be an acceptable compromise for some of us. Also, USALS wouldn't work using such a "trick"!
I was hoping that some of the motor experts here could tell me if such a scheme might be possible.
Best Dick |