HH90 Adapters?

[Northman]

Hi,
I messed up and bought an HH90, I just tried to install the thing today only to discover it won't work with my dish. I already own an HH120 and it works great but wind blew it out and it is too dangerous to get on the roof due to winter. I should have gotten the one that points up.

The old dish sat directly on the pole and came with an old BEV system. When I tried to install the motor I discovered that it won't work and the dish would just point into the ground.

Is there any type of adapter sold for this problem? Any ideas on how I can get it to work?

If not I'll have to see if I can return it - A huge pain in the arse, or try to sell it.

Thanks and Merry Christmas to all

[Northman]

I would like to warn others considering buying a motor to make sure it will work with the dish they own.

You would think that the motors would work with all dishes depending on weight limits but they don't

[pmb1010]

I saw your earlier post, and thought about it for a while.

I could not think why a HH120 which "points up" would be any different than an HH90 which "points down". The angle of the shaft wont make any difference, as they are both in the same plane when installed.

I've installed HH120, HH90 and SM312D motors, although on Fortec dishes which are not "an old BEV" system. The only issues I've read with motors is the Wineguard mounts are fussy, but only in the mount that interferes with attachment, not the way the shaft "points".

I'd be very suspect of installing an HH90 in strong wind area that took out a HH120 motor.
Not to be critical of your posts, but the stuff that Sadoun sells works with the stuff he sells.

Maybe if you take some digital pictures of your setup, attachment and troubles we can offer some suggestions. In the years I've been here I don't know what a "old BEV" dish even looks like.

Good luck and hope your install works out.

[Westvirginia]

You must first mount your motor to the pole. Then mount your dish to the motor leaving it loose. Then take your motor to "0" then adjust your dish elevation but first thing is to have your motor adjusted to your latitude!! So if it is 38.1 for your zipcode then your motor elevation is 38. Ok then if you already have a preprogramed recevier connect it and adjuSt the dish with a signal meter until you see perfect signal and quality. I have both of these motors and they work great as for pointing towards the ground its all a matter of adjustment.

[wejones]

Re the motor pointing up or down, while it is possible that some dishes might bump into the pole on turning when using a downward pointing dish, usually this isn't the case. Usually it's a situation where the dish is designed to sit on top of a pole, and has some kind of a flange that stops it from falling down the pole, and this keeps the mount from mounting on a pole facing down. Often these flanges can just be removed, or worse case cut off with a hack saw or file or something. As mentioned above, perhaps you can take a picture of the dish mount. Usually there is some way to allow you to mount it on a downward facing shaft. I think in the long run, if you can make it fit, you'll be better off with the shaft facing down, as I think it keeps the weather out better.

[1captain]

Hi Northman: I do quite a few of StarChoice dishes even though i am down in S Fl. an pictures would help alot, an i am not a exspert on Star Choice but will try to help you. now if its a real old StarChoice it will be a stamped steal dish about 24inches which is not going to work well as a FTA dish (to small) but you can un bolt the mount from the reflector an then the lnb arm (from the mount) an turn it up side down an remount lnb arm back to the mount then bolt it back on the dish an that will work for the stamped steel dishes, just did a change out last week from one like that to a composit with 2-lnbs, that the canadian brought down here. but if you have a composit dish its even easer, cause the mount that has the skew on it will turn up side down, just by lousing the 4-bolts that hold it to the reflector, then re tighten em an you are good to go, but the composit dishes are made by channel master an take a larger pole 2 3/8 od than the stamped steel dish that i changed out. so hope all helps Northman an good luck. Captain

[Northman]

Thanks for the input on my problem but I've already sent the motor back. There is no way that it could have worked with my Dish without doing some welding.

The problem was that the motor's arm pointed down and there was no way of getting my dish attached so that it would point up high enough to get any sats. It would have hit the motor's body. I guess my old dish is a winegard type. It came with the BEV reciever and I couldn't see any marks on it to tell me who made it.

Even if I could have got it set to point at one sat it wouldn't have been able to follow the sat arc.

The HH120 I have is up on my roof and I was going to add a new motor to the smaller dish on my deck.