Just Sharing This Paraclipse Antennas H-H Chaindrive Motor

[beavs2112]

Hi all. The small diseq H-H units can't handle a large dish (say a 1.8M). The Ajak Horizon180's can be found used in the USA & the Jaeger 1224's can be found used in Europe. Sadly I have never seen an Ajak Horizon180 for sale in Canada
So I was very surprised to see an ad for a large satellite motor. A man that takes down home television antenna towers & old satellite dishes kept an old Paraclipse H-H motor. He mentioned that a piece was broken off the part that goes over the pipe. So I was happy to find out when I bought it that he kept the broken piece. The units are made from cast aluminium so I had a local shop weld it back together. Paraclipse Antennas in the USA made a chain drive H-H motor for their 12-14 feet aluminum mesh dishes. I think the chain drive motors were made in the years 1990-1996. The early chain units had a Von-Wiese 1/10hp motor & a Von-Wiese gearbox. The later chain units had a Venture motor & a Sipco gearbox. The gears are all metal in the gearbox with some plastic ones in the motor. Even though the chain is driven by a metal cog it is fairly quiet. You can see how rusty the chain was. I have refurbished the unit with new grease, INOX hardware, & new chain. Some pictures below of my unit & other peoples from back in the day. The circuit board is the limit switch assembly. The housing that goes over the pipe is 8 inches tall. The complete thing weighs in at a whopping 50lb! The support section where the dish attaches is 24mm thick aluminium.
I have no doubts it will move & support my 1.8m offset Prodelin dish but I'm toying with the idea to attach my 3M CM PF dish to it

 

[beavs2112]

Here's a vid of the unit moving back & forth. the first pic gives an idea how big the unit is next to my g-box diseq 1.2 motor controller. the last two are of the repaired pipe housing.

 

[Archived-1]

Here's a vid of the unit moving back & forth & pictures of the repaired pipe housing.

Wow that is some motor thanks for sharing hope there is more to come on this , I don't think the video is made public Kevin ?, I cant play it pal

 

[beavs2112]

I don't think the video is made public Kevin ?, I cant play it pal

hhhmmm I thought it was public. it is age restricted. i'll check again. ok I took the age thing off. you might have to have a utube account to view it.

 

[Archived-1]

hhhmmm I thought it was public. it is age restricted. i'll check again. ok I took the age thing off. you might have to have a utube account to view it.

Its me pal half asleep yes got it that's the rolls Royce of motors , I will see about making my own version of this love it .

 

[lovelyperson]

hhhmmm I thought it was public. it is age restricted. i'll check again. ok I took the age thing off. you might have to have a utube account to view it.

Good morning beavs, that is some motor and to me the video confirms that it does not sound too loud when in motion.........what a nice piece of sat equip that is.

No probs with the video, right click on the underscored wording and open in a new tab or window. Wording says that you have disbled its reproduction en other web sites.
Whatever, lucky man with that Paraclipse H-H motor.....looking forward to the pics when you have it attached to a dish.

 

[Captain Jack]

Nice motor. Have never seen one for sale here - it's a shame noone bothers making decent H to H motors any more and even polar mounts are plagued by horrible actuators.

 

[beavs2112]

Good morning beavs, that is some motor and to me the video confirms that it does not sound too loud when in motion.........what a nice piece of sat equip that is.

No probs with the video, right click on the underscored wording and open in a new tab or window. Wording says that you have disbled its reproduction en other web sites.
Whatever, lucky man with that Paraclipse H-H motor.....looking forward to the pics when you have it attached to a dish. View attachment 84860

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thanks lp I'm glad the video is viewable.

 

[beavs2112]

Nice motor. Have never seen one for sale here - it's a shame noone bothers making decent H to H motors any more and even polar mounts are plagued by horrible actuators.

Thanks CJ Since the unit is 99% aluminium I'm very shocked that the guy didn't recycle it. I'm very lucky to have found it. The main pivot wheel & the lower pivot bracket are aluminium & the shafts they pivot on are steel. So lots of rust formed over 20 years and it wouldn't pivot at all when I got it. I was lucky to get them unstuck without breaking the ally parts. They used nylon bushings between the steel shafts and aluminium pivot brackets. Those are in ok shape.

Yes it is a shame that no one makes a reasonably priced high quality h-h motor any more. I shudder to think what it would cost to make an exact duplicate of this unit today. Certainly out of my affordability range. There doesn't seem to be any excess play in it at all. I'll have to see how it performs on tracking ku sats. The electric motor in it is 1/10hp which is roughly double the 1/19hp which is in my regular Von-Wiese actuator pushing my 3m CM polar mount.

 

[Archived-1]

This type of design is quite easy to reproduce, I bought a motor the other week and was unsure what I was going to do with it, but I will use it to make one of these in the near future, a bike wheel will do the trick .