Motorized dish installers in E s s e x/Uttlesford? Anybody left?

[tinto de verano]

Hi,

I have had a motorized dish for someting like 12 years. Servicing it every couple of years or so. It's been 3 years since last time. It deperately needs realignment.

I have called something like 20 or more people... and nobody seems to do motorized dish (realignment) anymore. "Too complicated, mate. There are other soultions out there for foreign channeles...".

I also have IPTV with my Hitechbox HB9000.

But I would love to have my dish realigned.

Anyone knows of an engineer still doing motorized dish realignment in the E s s ex/Uttlesford area?

Thanks.

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[Mickha]

It all depends where your dish is sited, if at ground level it's quite easy, but time consuming, to get it tracking the satellite arc precisely.
It's so much easier, thus quicker, to install a fixed dish, especially if you're just doing a sky installation.
Quicker equates to more money, for less work.

[tinto de verano]

Not on the ground.

On the rear wall of a house, above the roof... long ladder needed.

Thanks..

[Mickha]

Which explains why basic sky installers won't touch it.
If it was ground based I would have advised you do it yourself, but not when it's above roof level, and requires long ladders.
Good luck finding someone.

Have you tried an internet search for a motorized satellite dish installer?

[freebe]

Have you also thought about the costs ? Because you will be looking at about a bill for 250£ for the 2 hours that the man is there. ?
Good luck though.

[tinto de verano]

Which explains why basic sky installers won't touch it.
If it was ground based I would have advised you do it yourself, but not when it's above roof level, and requires long ladders.
Good luck finding someone.

Have you tried an internet search for a motorized satellite dish installer?

Yes, I did try Google. None of the 20 or more I called would do it.

[malsat]

I would do it but a bit far as based in Wakefield
Not many of us left.

[tinto de verano]

I would do it but a bit far as based in Wakefield
Not many of us left.

Hi malsat,

I see, some 3 hours away. Probably too much. I understans.
Thanks for letting me know there are still some of you left.

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[pilsner]

Hi tinto de verano

Your dish what type of mount is it h to h or polar mount with actuator or stab usals ? Pilsner

[pilsner]

You got picture of dish location look after lots of irs down that part the world if get a breakdown can swing by and sort for you ?

[tinto de verano]

Hi tinto de verano

Your dish what type of mount is it h to h or polar mount with actuator or stab usals ? Pilsner

(apologies for the late reply)

Not sure, I will have to investigate what type... I know I use USALS.
thanks

[tinto de verano]

You got picture of dish location look after lots of irs down that part the world if get a breakdown can swing by and sort for you ?

(apologies for the late reply)

Not sure what you mean... irs?
thanks

[Barney]

upload a picture from your phone or tablet if u have one of your dish showing how high it is and a closer pic of dish/motor
if your motor is an old Stab motor from 12 years ago good chance the bearings are shot they require grease every year and even at that old Stab motors were always dead slow and die due to cheap sh1t bearings inside them .
A Proper fix would be remove the motor with a new Disecq motor and align the dish on a new motor which would be far less likely to fail after a few days/weeks .
All that being said probably looking at a minimum £150+ even more but @ Pilsner i imagine since he is obviously very experienced would be very fair and decent with you .
just upload pictures i am certain 99% of members here will very quickly tell you what dish/motor you do have just looking at some pics it'll help a lot knowing what situation is whether its a quick fix or a definite new motor job for sure : )

[pilsner]

Barney nice1 thanks Cheers bud

[tinto de verano]

Thanks guys.

I will try to upload some pics, and I will also try to find any paperwork related to the motor (it is not the original one, as it had to be replaced... maybe 6 years ago?).

Maybe this evening.

Aplogies for the delays... and thanks for tour quick replies!

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[ManikM]

when i was running a DISEQ motor when i lived in Hemel Hempstead - i had the same issue as you - i eventually found someone on gumtree believe it or not - he was great - Tony his name.

i have his details if u want to PM me (if hes still doing it)

[tinto de verano]

I am afraid I have not been able to find any info/do***entation about the motor.

Neither the original one from 2009, nor the replacement one some 6 years ago.

Ah, the QAD LNB was also replaced, around 2013, I think.

And finally (apologies for the delay) some pics:

[CokeAddict]

Looks like a Technomate TM2600 or 1 of the clones of it.

Just a normal diseqc motor.

[ManikM]

the guy can sit on the roof as he tweaks - lovely

(PM sent)

[Barney]

Man i wished i lived somewhere close by i would for sure love to do this job ,
its not a Technomate TM2600 motor Cokeaddict .... i'd say very likely TM2300 motor as TM2600 motors are really not that old , but old enough i guess to not be available no more but that is due to sheer demand not age i reckon .. damn its in fine shape i take back all what i said about changing the motor .
on the last pic of the three the elevation looks very low to me and makes sense if it got a bit of battering from strong wind ,
But really that is not so high not much more than may be 16 or 17ft if even and i know my ladder would easily reach that no problem .
its no more than a 15-20min job to get that dish aligned perfectly again should be an installers dream if ever i saw one
looks to me like could be just an 85cm Gibertini dish ... hardly a 1 meter looking at the pics but i might be wrong but i do'nt really think so ?? The arm clearly shows us its definite NOT a Triax Dish that is for sure.


the guy can sit on the roof as he tweaks - lovely Nailed it :respect-063:

[tinto de verano]

the guy can sit on the roof as he tweaks - lovely

(PM sent)

TONY just fixed.

Thank you very much!!!

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[ManikM]

no problem mate - glad TONY is still going - it was a long time ago, ive had a baby and moved area since then - the baby is now nearly 6 and it was a few years before that
:)

[Barney]

TONY just fixed.

Thank you very much!!!

tinto de veranoSo the Disecq Motor is working still ??
was it just the dish elevation or direction that was off a bit ?
just goes to show this forum here is still proving as helpful and useful as it was from day one ,
fantastic that you got the desired result there is still so many decent good members still around here
long live Satpimps is all i can say : ) :king-042:

[tinto de verano]

Yes, motor still working.
Tony did the following:
-Go up the ladder
-Replace one loose screw/bolt in one of the wall brackets (the whole set up of bracktes, pole, motor, dish was a bit loose and moving with any little wind
-Suggested latitude and longitude that was a bit different to the one I found googling for my postcode... I followed his advise
-Told me to move the dish to Thor
-Moved/Stenghtened the dish a bit as dish elevation or direction was not really off by much, apparently
-Unplugged dish/plugged his meter and plugged disha again... or something like that
-Reset the motor as "it had gone a bit crazy". That seemed to be the real problem, apart from the loose screw/bolt on the wal.

I now have 92 Signal and 99 Quality again on 19.2, and I do get channels again on Hotbird, Thor, Hellas... which I was not able to get anymore

So a quick, clean, and good job for a decent, I think, price.

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PS: I forgot to add a big thank you to all the people that tried to help and provided ideas, links and phone numbers... even if most of the suggested people do not deal with motorized systems anymore... but finally, one of them did! And it fixed my dish/motor!

So thank you all, and thank you satpimps!!!

[ManikM]

does it need re-aligning again?

[tinto de verano]

does it need re-aligning again?

I am afraid it does.

You can read my recent post with another issue:

https://www.satpimps.co.uk/showthread.php?179643-Disec-1-2-Postion-For-Thor-in-Hitechbox-HD-9000

I want to fix that first, just in case.

Then I will think about the realigning in a few days when wind shave hopefully settled.

Thanks.

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[tinto de verano]

Hello.

And again, I need an installer to come to Saffron Walden and fix my motorized dish. It is not moving.

Can anyone recommend a good technitian?

Unfortunately, Tony, they guy I found and whod did such a good job is... not going up ladders anymore.

I recently decided to change my old wind battered system with a new

-Technomate TM-2300M3 motor
-Technomate TM-4 Super High Gain Universal QUAD LN
-90 cm mesh dish (hoping it would survive the strong winds better than the previous 85 cm clear dish)
(still using Hitechbox HB9000)

Tony installed it and it worked fine.

After a few weeks it started losing signal... trying different sats managed to get the signal back... sometimes... but unfortunately at some point the dish decided not to move anymore.

Anyone can help, please?

Thanks in advance.

[tinto de verano]

Finally got it sorted.
A company (not sure if I can mention the name here) that does not do motorized dishes anymore agreed to send an engineer if it was just a matter of replugging the f connector....
A guy arrived this morning, had a look, said OK even if motorized, plugged in the f connector... we got signal... but lost it after trying a few different sats... ???
It turned out that another cable was damaged inside, normal wear an tear...
So 2 hours later... one cable replugged and one cable replaced.
All working now, thanks to Dave, really helpful guy.

Thank you all for your advice and help.