There's only one option for the dish-name: E V E R L I N K E R --- simple and adaquate (… I think …) As always perfect solutions to the detail. Thanks for sharing.
Everytime I watch you I'm at a loss for words. The level of intelligence, consistency, & ingenuity are soooo far ahead of anything I see in my day to day or myself. Truly an inspiration.
Thank you for the fantastic subtitles! My wife is Deaf and we appreciate the extra work you do for accessibility! For anyone who hasn't added subtitles to a video before, it adds A TON of time to the overall production because you not only have to transcribe what is said, you then have to match it up with proper timing.
Actually, as far as I have applied subtitles, it's a lot easier to allow for automatical subtitles (english), and then possibly check for grammatical errors that the robot has made.
@@mr1martin1 20% of our audience does not speak English and thus the automatic subtitles fall apart when translated because they lack sentence structure, puns and turns of phrase. Oftentimes my word salad, complex sentence structure is simplified for coherency and thus translates allot cleaner.
Maybe 10yr ago, before I retired, I was escorting oversized load trucks over most of Australia. At one stage, I used to take the austar/ foxtel satellite tv dish with me. As long as I didn’t travel more than 800kms or so, nth or south , I could point it by just moving it sideways ( elevation was close enough to get to the right satellite, fine tuned after that). Had a piece of pipe about a foot long mounter vertically/permanently mounted on the bullbar. Just pull the dish out of the back drop it on the pipe on bulbar, rotate left or right till the setup screen on tv goes green. Tv was on a swivelling arm, so I turn it around to face the front at look thru windscreen at setup screen to know what position was correct. Had a socket permanently mounted on bullbar to plug the dish into. I lost an arm almost 30 yr ago, so had to make everything easy to set up. Not a lot of patience left after working/ driving 12 hours. This is not internet, but thought u might find it interesting. Love your starlink setup.
You have absolutely no idea how much I appreciate you actually taking the time with the subtitles because I’m half deaf in both my ears so I can barely hear anything. Lol. Thank you again. Awesome design also.
Im in awe! You are not only ingenious your simply thorough explanation and visual are a delight to watch. What an education..just might make a techno nerd out of this 70 yr old women who is itching to hit the road!
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Half way through my build!!!! Got the cables cut and tested, currently printing the 6th part of the 3D print. Posting this comment on my (now) 35 foot cable with X-swapped RJ45’s in the rain. Wheee can I post pics??? THANK YOU for the video, 3D files, parts list & confidence. I will soon have this on my roof with my 2000 watts of solar. What amazing work and an Amazing journey you are making. (Monetary thanks is coming soon too).
Awesome content and so love you just make up solutions on the road and pop them out of your 3D printer. Love the homage to the Orange Box as well. (If only you had painted it thusly. ;-) ) As to the naming of the new rooftop accoutrement, I humbly submit the following for consideration: "Voided McWarranty", "EVERLANDR Flatpak", or the "Ender Startrekker"
Very cool. Way different and more thought out than what everyone else is doing to go flat. And the 12v upgrade and wire splicing tutorial all in one video. Mil Gracias! ***Dishy McStarWedge***
Hope you guys have a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year. (happy holiday’s) It would be neat to see how the South America countries celebrate the holidays. That would be a interesting video to see who they decorate trees lights like we do in North America etc.
NICE touch with the "McBumpyStumpy" mount, i think I will do that to our F350 Wheeled Coach Amateur Radio Van. Respectfully, Dennis, KV4WM, A US Navy Nuclear Submarine Veteran and Amateur Radio Operator.
Excellent engineering, smart project, useful information for future Starlink hackers, humor, and more. This video has it all! Great work, thanks for sharing.
11:49 was epic! Representing Canada well with your self deprecation! I think this is amazing and your creativity, execution, and patience are far beyond anything I could ever imagine myself achieving. Been watching for a long time and no idea why this one popped into my feed only today but happy it did. Thank you and safe travels.
"Linky McTraveler" is my nominated name. Those batteries look amazing. Even better than the top rated ones from Project Farm's roundup review. Thank you for sharing your knowledge and hours of work with us, both on YTube and Thingiverse.
I genuinely appreciate you uploading these files, and the files for the power supply case for free. I actually prefer your solution to the commercial products on the market. I am at the start of my journey building a Fuso 4x4 Truck, having always had touring vehicles like Landcruisers, Jeeps and the like. I hope this small donation is enough to buy a nice dinner next time you’re in town.
Thanks for this video. As a full-time RVer customizing the residential Starlink for flat mounting on an rv is super helpful for me. I really enjoyed the video and appreciate learning new info. I did notice one small issue. The wiring standard you referred to as 586b is actually 568b. Not a huge deal but just wanted to bring it to your attention. Thanks again for the info you shared on this. My next couple weekends will be fun.
Had this mount 3D printed and put all together mounted to my roof with a few modifications to fit my ridged roof. Went to go open up the starlink today and unfortunately nicked the grey wire under the curved section where the pole would stow flat into. Thought this was a thorough video and rewatched it numerous times today to make sure I understood what to do and no mention of this wire being right under that section. Used a dremel even with barely any cut depth. You need to pin an update to the top of the comments informing people of this, I’m out my starlink now
If I will go to Mars, I bring you in the toolbox..and my swiss army knife..and a 3D-printer. That will probably solve anything :) Merry X-mas and happy new year.
Man you are my favorite guy on youtube. Thanks for the CAD. Its been driving me crazy how much power usage the stock starlink system uses. Drains my van batteries quick if i have to put in a full day of work with it.
At 15:25 the diagram shows {orange-stripe --> orange --> ...}, but in your hands you have {orange --> orange-stripe --> ...} I just completed this whole project using your 3d model and instructions. Big thanks 🙏
Starlink is the gift that keeps on giving… I fought for useable internet in Central Florida for over 20 years, starting with a pair of ISDN lines. Then I get Starlink and my browser suggests your Starlink video and I discover your magnificent youtube channel!! You are “source” and I just joined your channel as a supporter Thanks!! Oh I noticed your video about the “amputated dishy” had over 200,000 views… Nice!!!
Wow what a fantastic video. Incredible look for a Starlink set up. Your 3D printer did an excellent job and finish of the case. Didn’t anyone tell you are on the road traveling. Great set up. Cheers
Awesome video! Interesting to see that the dish operates completely standalone from the router. I would've figured the router handled the subscriber management/network config part.
Thank you, I keep looking for such DIY stuffs. One thing I would like to mention here is that you have a good communication skill and personality too. Everything you speak that comes directly from your heart.
Presenting this information in video format affords me the luxury of appearing as a skillful communicator, while I have hours of scrapped video that demonstrates much less skill.
You r my type of nerdy wizzards ..... simple straight to the point guy ..... Not that the jobs are simple .... but you make them look so .... keep up the good work
Great video! I love your design philosophy and it's helped me with my own projects. A thing I always ask myself now is "will a piece of literal trash work instead". And, don't necessarily buy the thing everyone says you absolutely need.
Wow the algorithm found you and I’m in awe. So astute and well rounded. Your knowledge of communication and data technology is impressive. A great amount of skill and time had to have been put into this video. Thank you. PS. My solution is going to be permanently mounting the dishy on my rig, no modification. I may do the injector mod.
photovoltaic/solar thermal technician here: my cantenna with coaxil cable weaved into a chicken wire basket for my cellphone to broadcast my hotspot to my laptop 500ft away while in Joshua Tree can't compare to your starlink wedge 🤣😂🤣 well done, you saved yourself 💸💸💸i'm pretty sure golf carts have 48V step down converters. maybe a buck converter even though creates loss in the system from the panel. enjoyed all 33 minutes 👍
Dude, you are a mad genius!!! Why are there not 20M subscribers to your channel??? I don't get it! Anyway, yep, my starlink flat mount wouldn't work on my sloped roof of my house, so I tried creating a bizarre solution that hasn't worked. I still get a connection, but it's at an odd angle, not flat, and I get reduced speeds for sure. If only I had a flat roof!!! But your video here is inspiring me to come up with something similar that can mount on an angled roof! So glad I found this video!!!
Awesome work! Thanks for the detailed pinouts on the connectors! Given how far south you are, you are probably never going to have the dish heater kick on. That said, if you ever get a cold snap or drive north, you may find that the dish will pull a LOT more power, and just make sure the PoE inserter as well as the DC to DC converter can handle the current.
Took me an hour to do the RJ45 connector. The dishy side of the cable was an extremely flexible wire that I haven’t encountered before. It would just bunch up in the connector. I had to feed each strand in individually and it took multiple try’s with each one. I did notice that on yours the cable was grey. Mine is white. In the end it tested perfectly. Crazy how it gets online faster now that the motor is gone.
Awesome and well explained video, many thanks from Queensland - Australia. We are traveling around Australia with dishy, bloody awesome dish, will definitely mount it when we get home some time next year, at the moment we are setting up each stop. “Dishy Mcangleofthedangle”
Best flat-mount and 12V conversion video so far. Great work and presentation. People seem to have had issues with the POE injector dropping link speed from 1000 to 100 mbps. It probably doesn't matter much but have you retained 1000 mbps for your setup?
Man I wish I had your intelligence, ingenuity, and skills!! Amazing...life must be a little easier for you by possessing the skills that you do. Well done!
Fantastic job on the conversion! For the StarLink dish name, how about "Yondu's Topper", for his mohawk head-mounted antenna, in Guardians of the Galaxy.
I'd be interested to hear how that PoE injector works for you. We used a few different ones at my last job and so many DC versions were junk. The Axis T81B22 was great though now discontinued, and the Tycon TP-DCDC-1248GD-HP was pretty good.
You make this stuff interesting to watch. At several points my eyes cross, but luckily my husband follows ;) If you're looking for something different from "dishy" maybe something simple like "flat dish" or even "dished up" shorten to "dishup". Just a few ideas. My husband says "pegleg" since you took it's leg off.
Stumbling on this has me in awe of the simplicity, coherance, intelligence, and overall renaissance man level you have when doing this. Aspiring. Definitely got a sub.
I applaud your knowledge, skills and resourcefulness. Your presentation is well organized, clear, concise and complete. I also applaud you and your spouse for you adventurous spirit and commitment to your daring lifestyle. I enjoyed the presentation with the clever and apt visual effects. Very impressive. I also detect a soft Canadian accent. I wish you great success and fun on your continuing adventure and thank you for sharing a bit of your experience on TH-cam Awesome!
You kill me. "Starlink Toaster/Toasty McToastface"... just got mine weeks ago, installed in the garage (Central Texas), noticed right away that face was hot, would have written it off to the ambient heat in the garage (>105F) but the other routers aren't boiling like that "toaster" Great call out.
Just borrowed a friends 3D printer to have a crack at this. Was absolutely not aware how long it takes to 3D print something... should have it installed by October haha Thank you so much for this!
I've since printed a couple more for other travelers and have shaved it down to about 80 hours on my $200 printer... I know others with the Bamboo Labs X1 have done it in 24 hours...
I just wanted to thank you. I was able to get my starlink on 12v using your video as a guide. Not quite sure if I want to flat mount it yet, but It feels great to be using my own router and not needing my inverter for satellite internet. :)
Awesome perspective on how to get/keep service. Going to check out your mobile router video next. Won't be off reading like that in my class A but would like more off grid capabilities. Love the solar array as well. Learned a lot on thos video. Thank you.
I've watched a couple of your videos now. The smiling IT man. You are a very clever AND smart person and as you know that's a rare thing. Couple of fellow Aussies traveling through that country got waylaid on a road and shot to death. I honestly hope you and family made it through Columbia in one piece.
Yeah, we made it through, extended our Visa for 6 months... Went to Ecuador for Christmas, and then back to Colombia for another 6 months... Just extended our Visas again. As the administrator of an online group of 200+ other Overlanders currently in South America, I can say that the experience of your friends is statistically small. The worst I heard was 3 guys getting attached with a machete. But that was in my hometown of Canada: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/man-convicted-of-violent-machete-attack-1.6152998 There is danger everywhere, but to condemn a whole Country is unwise.
Love the videos. Love you guys. I created a pipe mount and crawl up and down the ladder Almost daily to take down Starlink and stow it, then rinse and repeat…. GREAT IDEA.
Hi, Great video which I am in the process of using to do my flat mount. Just a word of caution for others doing the same. At the 8min10sec mark in this video, take a good look at how close the main wire is to where you are cutting and don't cut it like I did. Thanks again for your great videos and giving me the inspiration and the 3D print files enabling me to tackle this project. Well done.
Exactly, as I showed at 8:01 - you only want to cut through the outer housing, until the cutting wheel barely makes it through, then it will take a little bit of force to break the remaining inner support ribs as shown at 8:06
I did this job this weekend, with some difficulties. I did not realize the coupler has a mirrored connection, so the wiring should be identical in each RJ45. A check with a multimeter and one of your diagrams helped me puzzle it out. But I never got the RJ45 and couplers to work for unknown reasons. My multimeter showed good connections on each wire but still, it would not work after multiple attempts. I ended up stripping and soldering and heat shrinking each of the 8 pair plus drain wires, enclosing them in a larger heat shrink, wrapping with aluminum foil for shielding, and using the waterproof coupler after ripping out the RJ45 internals. Then it worked great at up to 300 Mbps download speed. I attached your 3D printed frame using 4x 120lb epoxy coated magnets bolted to the aluminum channel which is working great.
Yes, the finer conductors in the cable make the crimping fussy.. be sure to use the 3 pronged forked passthrough RJ45 connectors for best results. Glad you got it going in the end...
The reason your multimeter showed connection is that it might be technically touching, it may not be a solid enough connection to pass the full current to power up the dish.
Thank you so much for getting rid of the whole inverter kludge. Be interested in hearing more re your longer-term experience with the 12 Vdc power consumption, measured at dc.
Thank you so much for making this video. I followed your instructions step by step and mine turned out perfectly after several other attempts. keep up the great work. I did have to go into advanced settings and turn off the starlink router setting.
There's only one option for the dish-name: E V E R L I N K E R --- simple and adaquate (… I think …) As always perfect solutions to the detail. Thanks for sharing.
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That’s a great name for the dish
Thanks for the transcript! Easier to follow along. Where can I get your handy wire crimping tool?
Everlinky
Everytime I watch you I'm at a loss for words. The level of intelligence, consistency, & ingenuity are soooo far ahead of anything I see in my day to day or myself. Truly an inspiration.
Ditto
Dude is something else. A madman
No question ! Everything from cad to electrical to networking he is amazing. Such a great teacher and demeanor.
This is one of the most well-constructed, thought-out, and generous TH-cam videos I've seen.
Thank you for the fantastic subtitles! My wife is Deaf and we appreciate the extra work you do for accessibility!
For anyone who hasn't added subtitles to a video before, it adds A TON of time to the overall production because you not only have to transcribe what is said, you then have to match it up with proper timing.
Thanks for letting us know, my wife types them out with love...
Actually, as far as I have applied subtitles, it's a lot easier to allow for automatical subtitles (english), and then possibly check for grammatical errors that the robot has made.
@@mr1martin1 20% of our audience does not speak English and thus the automatic subtitles fall apart when translated because they lack sentence structure, puns and turns of phrase. Oftentimes my word salad, complex sentence structure is simplified for coherency and thus translates allot cleaner.
Maybe 10yr ago, before I retired, I was escorting oversized load trucks over most of Australia. At one stage, I used to take the austar/ foxtel satellite tv dish with me. As long as I didn’t travel more than 800kms or so, nth or south , I could point it by just moving it sideways ( elevation was close enough to get to the right satellite, fine tuned after that). Had a piece of pipe about a foot long mounter vertically/permanently mounted on the bullbar. Just pull the dish out of the back drop it on the pipe on bulbar, rotate left or right till the setup screen on tv goes green. Tv was on a swivelling arm, so I turn it around to face the front at look thru windscreen at setup screen to know what position was correct. Had a socket permanently mounted on bullbar to plug the dish into. I lost an arm almost 30 yr ago, so had to make everything easy to set up. Not a lot of patience left after working/ driving 12 hours. This is not internet, but thought u might find it interesting. Love your starlink setup.
Jason, you a Real One for sharing the CAD of you design for free. I salute you sir
You are very welcome
I’ll be mounting mine up today. Thank you for the print!
@@Everlanders can I also get the 3d print file?
Yes
I continue to be fascinated by the field "McGyvering" that you complete for all your projects! AMAZING!
You have a sun roof, or moon roof but now you have a "Star Roof" perfect name for this awesome new build.
You have absolutely no idea how much I appreciate you actually taking the time with the subtitles because I’m half deaf in both my ears so I can barely hear anything. Lol. Thank you again. Awesome design also.
I have some idea... Because kind folks like you tell me... 😁
Im in awe! You are not only ingenious your simply thorough explanation and visual are a delight to watch. What an education..just might make a techno nerd out of this 70 yr old women who is itching to hit the road!
Master link!! That's what I would call it. Because you are the master of coming up with the idea. And I like your finger pointer. 😆
He's so good for pointing! 👉
Thanks to the algorithm I stumbled across you. As an engineer I commend you and thank you for the content, I am inspired… subscribing immediately!
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Half way through my build!!!! Got the cables cut and tested, currently printing the 6th part of the 3D print. Posting this comment on my (now) 35 foot cable with X-swapped RJ45’s in the rain. Wheee can I post pics??? THANK YOU for the video, 3D files, parts list & confidence. I will soon have this on my roof with my 2000 watts of solar. What amazing work and an Amazing journey you are making. (Monetary thanks is coming soon too).
That's great!!! I'd love to see your installation. Email me some photos!
Awesome content and so love you just make up solutions on the road and pop them out of your 3D printer. Love the homage to the Orange Box as well. (If only you had painted it thusly. ;-) )
As to the naming of the new rooftop accoutrement, I humbly submit the following for consideration:
"Voided McWarranty",
"EVERLANDR Flatpak",
or the "Ender Startrekker"
You're the Chuck Norris of self sufficiency overlanding, always admire your protocols! DISHY MC CAT BOX ;)
That's a comparison I'd not heard before... Thanks!
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Very cool. Way different and more thought out than what everyone else is doing to go flat. And the 12v upgrade and wire splicing tutorial all in one video. Mil Gracias!
***Dishy McStarWedge***
Thanks 👍
You should name it
Sasketchy Mc Sasquatch.
To honour the Saskatchewan 3D printing master.
Keep up the good work travel safe have fun.
This one's gaining traction.
Hope you guys have a Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year. (happy holiday’s)
It would be neat to see how the South America countries celebrate the holidays. That would be a interesting video to see who they decorate trees lights like we do in North America etc.
Thank you for letting me know.
Have a Happy New Year. Wishing all of you Good luck and lots of fun in the New year.
Keep you the great content.😁
NICE touch with the "McBumpyStumpy" mount, i think I will do that to our F350 Wheeled Coach Amateur Radio Van. Respectfully, Dennis, KV4WM, A US Navy Nuclear Submarine Veteran and Amateur Radio Operator.
Excellent engineering, smart project, useful information for future Starlink hackers, humor, and more. This video has it all! Great work, thanks for sharing.
11:49 was epic! Representing Canada well with your self deprecation! I think this is amazing and your creativity, execution, and patience are far beyond anything I could ever imagine myself achieving. Been watching for a long time and no idea why this one popped into my feed only today but happy it did. Thank you and safe travels.
Glad you enjoyed it!
I loved all the Portal Turret Chatter during the video. This looks awesome, and gives me ideas for my future camping trailer! Thanks! :)
"Linky McTraveler" is my nominated name.
Those batteries look amazing. Even better than the top rated ones from Project Farm's roundup review.
Thank you for sharing your knowledge and hours of work with us, both on YTube and Thingiverse.
I genuinely appreciate you uploading these files, and the files for the power supply case for free. I actually prefer your solution to the commercial products on the market. I am at the start of my journey building a Fuso 4x4 Truck, having always had touring vehicles like Landcruisers, Jeeps and the like. I hope this small donation is enough to buy a nice dinner next time you’re in town.
Thank you very much 🙏
love the portal audio bits lol, your work and kit is impressive
Great video! Also wanted to thank you for the subtitles. Really appreciate when TH-camrs put in the extra effort and time to do it properly. :)
Glad you like them!
Amazing! I never thought about a 3d printer as a viable tool for an endeavor like yours, but it has proven to be quite useful if not essential. 😁👍
Quite Space adventure-ish. Except u got air. XD
Thanks for this video. As a full-time RVer customizing the residential Starlink for flat mounting on an rv is super helpful for me. I really enjoyed the video and appreciate learning new info. I did notice one small issue. The wiring standard you referred to as 586b is actually 568b. Not a huge deal but just wanted to bring it to your attention. Thanks again for the info you shared on this. My next couple weekends will be fun.
Yes, that's correct.
I thought Canada used 568a Ethernet wiring convention, and not 568b.
@@brianpacchetti5028 I was unaware that 568a was still used as a standard these days. I don't know what the Canadian standards are.
That's cute that you included the Portal sentry voice while you doing your dish surgery. :)
Had this mount 3D printed and put all together mounted to my roof with a few modifications to fit my ridged roof.
Went to go open up the starlink today and unfortunately nicked the grey wire under the curved section where the pole would stow flat into.
Thought this was a thorough video and rewatched it numerous times today to make sure I understood what to do and no mention of this wire being right under that section. Used a dremel even with barely any cut depth.
You need to pin an update to the top of the comments informing people of this, I’m out my starlink now
Love it! Love how clean your installation is and your truck. You really inspire me to get out and do projects
Awesome! Thank you!
If I will go to Mars, I bring you in the toolbox..and my swiss army knife..and a 3D-printer. That will probably solve anything :) Merry X-mas and happy new year.
Oooh, Yeah! Mars sounds great this time of year!
@@BeeBeorn He really is our Mark Watney (from The Martian movie ; ).
You're too kind!
Been watching you for a while. You really hit it out of the park with this project and video. Just keeps getting better man.
Man you are my favorite guy on youtube. Thanks for the CAD. Its been driving me crazy how much power usage the stock starlink system uses. Drains my van batteries quick if i have to put in a full day of work with it.
No problem 👍
At 15:25 the diagram shows {orange-stripe --> orange --> ...}, but in your hands you have {orange --> orange-stripe --> ...}
I just completed this whole project using your 3d model and instructions. Big thanks 🙏
The diagrams are correct.
Which cable have +48 Volt I know brown and Brown-White is Minus
Starlink is the gift that keeps on giving… I fought for useable internet in
Central Florida for over 20 years, starting with a pair of ISDN lines. Then I get Starlink and my browser suggests your Starlink video and I discover your magnificent youtube channel!! You are “source” and I just joined your channel as a supporter Thanks!! Oh I noticed your video about the “amputated dishy” had over 200,000 views… Nice!!!
Yes, thanks, very happy that the video is doing well.
Great video! Thanks for all your effort putting these details together.
Glad you like them!
Wow what a fantastic video. Incredible look for a Starlink set up. Your 3D printer did an excellent job and finish of the case. Didn’t anyone tell you are on the road traveling. Great set up.
Cheers
Thank you very much!
@@Everlanders You have the patience of a saint. I would have had my printer running as fast as it would go.
Yeah, but then surface finish and layer adhesion suffer, as I'm sure you're aware... Just saying for others passing by.
Awesome video! Interesting to see that the dish operates completely standalone from the router. I would've figured the router handled the subscriber management/network config part.
Yeah, I was a bit surprised too...
Thank you, I keep looking for such DIY stuffs. One thing I would like to mention here is that you have a good communication skill and personality too. Everything you speak that comes directly from your heart.
Presenting this information in video format affords me the luxury of appearing as a skillful communicator, while I have hours of scrapped video that demonstrates much less skill.
You r my type of nerdy wizzards ..... simple straight to the point guy .....
Not that the jobs are simple .... but you make them look so .... keep up the good work
An extremely well thought out adaptation skillfully executed and beautifully presented. Thanks!
Great video, love the subtle turrets ;)
Thanks! 😀
doing this took weeks if not months and guy made it look like he made it in one day, such pro
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Great tutorial. Thank you for sharing your work with the overlanding community.
Thank you kindly!
Great video! I love your design philosophy and it's helped me with my own projects. A thing I always ask myself now is "will a piece of literal trash work instead". And, don't necessarily buy the thing everyone says you absolutely need.
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Wow the algorithm found you and I’m in awe. So astute and well rounded. Your knowledge of communication and data technology is impressive. A great amount of skill and time had to have been put into this video. Thank you. PS. My solution is going to be permanently mounting the dishy on my rig, no modification. I may do the injector mod.
Then perhaps this will be of interest to you...
th-cam.com/video/RlENmAikSQQ/w-d-xo.html
You are a Mad scientist.. Just came across your video..
Awesome details and Awesome content 👏 👌 👍 New followers
photovoltaic/solar thermal technician here: my cantenna with coaxil cable weaved into a chicken wire basket for my cellphone to broadcast my hotspot to my laptop 500ft away while in Joshua Tree can't compare to your starlink wedge 🤣😂🤣 well done, you saved yourself 💸💸💸i'm pretty sure golf carts have 48V step down converters. maybe a buck converter even though creates loss in the system from the panel. enjoyed all 33 minutes 👍
Dude, you are a mad genius!!! Why are there not 20M subscribers to your channel??? I don't get it! Anyway, yep, my starlink flat mount wouldn't work on my sloped roof of my house, so I tried creating a bizarre solution that hasn't worked. I still get a connection, but it's at an odd angle, not flat, and I get reduced speeds for sure. If only I had a flat roof!!! But your video here is inspiring me to come up with something similar that can mount on an angled roof! So glad I found this video!!!
Awesome work! Thanks for the detailed pinouts on the connectors! Given how far south you are, you are probably never going to have the dish heater kick on. That said, if you ever get a cold snap or drive north, you may find that the dish will pull a LOT more power, and just make sure the PoE inserter as well as the DC to DC converter can handle the current.
The heater has been disabled and will not kick in. But regardless, both can do the 130 watts that the dish needs.
Took me an hour to do the RJ45 connector. The dishy side of the cable was an extremely flexible wire that I haven’t encountered before. It would just bunch up in the connector. I had to feed each strand in individually and it took multiple try’s with each one. I did notice that on yours the cable was grey. Mine is white. In the end it tested perfectly. Crazy how it gets online faster now that the motor is gone.
Awesome and well explained video, many thanks from Queensland - Australia. We are traveling around Australia with dishy, bloody awesome dish, will definitely mount it when we get home some time next year, at the moment we are setting up each stop. “Dishy Mcangleofthedangle”
How much does it cost in Australia? How fast is it, 100mbps?
Hey Rick, the prices are listed on the Starlink website on your local currency...
www.starlink.com/rv
Very nice video with a great finished install. 11 out of 10.
Thanks 👍
I think this is the BEST video I’ve ever watched on TH-cam - this guy is brilliant. If only all people would watch this and use it as a standard
I love how you talk through all the details in an engaging and informative manner, yet also very natural, appropriately funny, and honest. thank you!
Wow, thank you!
Best flat-mount and 12V conversion video so far. Great work and presentation. People seem to have had issues with the POE injector dropping link speed from 1000 to 100 mbps. It probably doesn't matter much but have you retained 1000 mbps for your setup?
I haven't checked to be sure. But it's still plenty fast.
Failure to X-swap the pairs could easily account for the lower speed.
Major Tom - that's what I would call your new starlink box..
"ground control to Major Tom" 🎶 🎵
Well done! Thank you for a timely and much needed demo on how it's done.
Man I wish I had your intelligence, ingenuity, and skills!! Amazing...life must be a little easier for you by possessing the skills that you do. Well done!
Thanks for the free model! Our friend with a 3d printer just finished printing our starlink mount! So excited to get it installed.
E-mail me some photos! I'd like to include it in the next video...👍
Fantastic job on the conversion! For the StarLink dish name, how about "Yondu's Topper", for his mohawk head-mounted antenna, in Guardians of the Galaxy.
I'd be interested to hear how that PoE injector works for you. We used a few different ones at my last job and so many DC versions were junk. The Axis T81B22 was great though now discontinued, and the Tycon TP-DCDC-1248GD-HP was pretty good.
Although it's only been a week, it's running cool as a cucumber. Further, it's the defacto standard in the Starlink Hacking circles...
Earned a subscriber with this video. Awesome work!
Awesome, thank you!
Cool : FLAT STABLE EARTH : FLAT X STAR . Excellent Engineering, Electrical, Mechanical and Technical skills too!
Thank you for the subtitles. It makes it easier to hear without blasting my neighbors later at night.
Squatchy McSquatchface sounds appropriate.
Scotty (as in, “Beam me up, Scotty!”)
I got myself a high-speed, low drag coefficient SDD.
What is a SDD?
Ahh...
Slippiest Drag Dish
You make this stuff interesting to watch. At several points my eyes cross, but luckily my husband follows ;) If you're looking for something different from "dishy" maybe something simple like "flat dish" or even "dished up" shorten to "dishup". Just a few ideas. My husband says "pegleg" since you took it's leg off.
the CAD~dyi~Shack! 👍🏼 ( the CaddyShack) Sir, a brilliant piece of work creating a CAD-dyi-Shack housing for your SATT! Thanks for sharing & be well…
Dishy "Warren" T. Void
Oh, lol, I love this one...
Name: I'm going Star Trek here and calling it the
*Forward Phaser Array*
How about Everlink
That's got a ring to it! 🕭
I watch with captions all the time, and the handrwitten ones are great!!
That's wonderful, 👍 thanks for letting us know. My wife types them out with love.
Wedgy McRoofdish
Is it actually a good name, or do I have some kind of first-mover advantage?
🤷♂️
@@Everlanders Well I like it anyway.
Betty Grabel, she’s a dish.
Can Confirm!
EverFlat
Stumbling on this has me in awe of the simplicity, coherance, intelligence, and overall renaissance man level you have when doing this. Aspiring. Definitely got a sub.
Thanks again ❤
McLegless flatdish 😂🤣
I applaud your knowledge, skills and resourcefulness. Your presentation is well organized, clear, concise and complete. I also applaud you and your spouse for you adventurous spirit and commitment to your daring lifestyle. I enjoyed the presentation with the clever and apt visual effects. Very impressive. I also detect a soft Canadian accent. I wish you great success and fun on your continuing adventure and thank you for sharing a bit of your experience on TH-cam Awesome!
Wow, thank you!
You kill me. "Starlink Toaster/Toasty McToastface"... just got mine weeks ago, installed in the garage (Central Texas), noticed right away that face was hot, would have written it off to the ambient heat in the garage (>105F) but the other routers aren't boiling like that "toaster"
Great call out.
Well, to be fair, it is more of a power supply than a router.
Just borrowed a friends 3D printer to have a crack at this. Was absolutely not aware how long it takes to 3D print something... should have it installed by October haha Thank you so much for this!
I've since printed a couple more for other travelers and have shaved it down to about 80 hours on my $200 printer... I know others with the Bamboo Labs X1 have done it in 24 hours...
@@Everlanders yeah I was just totally unaware that it was a long process haha fun though! Might have found a new hobby
I just wanted to thank you. I was able to get my starlink on 12v using your video as a guide. Not quite sure if I want to flat mount it yet, but It feels great to be using my own router and not needing my inverter for satellite internet. :)
For sure! Flat mounting is totally optional...
Thanks!
How about “DishontheRoof” for your new mount? ;)
Great video, I hope to do the same some day and enjoy my own "Nowarranty McWedgeface".
Warranties are overrated anyway.
Slanty McLinkface. I'm too late and not in the US anyway, but there you go. Great vid!
Awesome perspective on how to get/keep service. Going to check out your mobile router video next. Won't be off reading like that in my class A but would like more off grid capabilities. Love the solar array as well. Learned a lot on thos video. Thank you.
I've watched a couple of your videos now. The smiling IT man. You are a very clever AND smart person and as you know that's a rare thing. Couple of fellow Aussies traveling through that country got waylaid on a road and shot to death. I honestly hope you and family made it through Columbia in one piece.
Yeah, we made it through, extended our Visa for 6 months... Went to Ecuador for Christmas, and then back to Colombia for another 6 months... Just extended our Visas again. As the administrator of an online group of 200+ other Overlanders currently in South America, I can say that the experience of your friends is statistically small. The worst I heard was 3 guys getting attached with a machete. But that was in my hometown of Canada: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/saskatoon/man-convicted-of-violent-machete-attack-1.6152998
There is danger everywhere, but to condemn a whole Country is unwise.
Love the videos. Love you guys. I created a pipe mount and crawl up and down the ladder Almost daily to take down Starlink and stow it, then rinse and repeat…. GREAT IDEA.
Thanks for sharing the file! I got it printed In Cuenca Ecuador as I don’t have a printer in my van. I’m going to open the dishy this afternoon 🎉
We're in Cuenca now, I think we featured your van in one of our videos...
Cali 7373?
Your introduction as an all american Sasquatch makes me want to subscribe to your channel. Keep on rolling!!
Dude, this is the most valuable video on TH-cam EVER. Thank you so much!
You are inspirational. I love the adventurous life style. We are similar creatures.
Hi, Great video which I am in the process of using to do my flat mount. Just a word of caution for others doing the same. At the 8min10sec mark in this video, take a good look at how close the main wire is to where you are cutting and don't cut it like I did. Thanks again for your great videos and giving me the inspiration and the 3D print files enabling me to tackle this project. Well done.
Exactly, as I showed at 8:01 - you only want to cut through the outer housing, until the cutting wheel barely makes it through, then it will take a little bit of force to break the remaining inner support ribs as shown at 8:06
Thanks for the video, print and advise was brilliant. I now have a starlink camper!
Thanks
どうもありがとうございますどうもありがとうございます！どうもありがとうございます！
I did this job this weekend, with some difficulties.
I did not realize the coupler has a mirrored connection, so the wiring should be identical in each RJ45. A check with a multimeter and one of your diagrams helped me puzzle it out.
But I never got the RJ45 and couplers to work for unknown reasons. My multimeter showed good connections on each wire but still, it would not work after multiple attempts. I ended up stripping and soldering and heat shrinking each of the 8 pair plus drain wires, enclosing them in a larger heat shrink, wrapping with aluminum foil for shielding, and using the waterproof coupler after ripping out the RJ45 internals. Then it worked great at up to 300 Mbps download speed.
I attached your 3D printed frame using 4x 120lb epoxy coated magnets bolted to the aluminum channel which is working great.
Yes, the finer conductors in the cable make the crimping fussy.. be sure to use the 3 pronged forked passthrough RJ45 connectors for best results. Glad you got it going in the end...
The reason your multimeter showed connection is that it might be technically touching, it may not be a solid enough connection to pass the full current to power up the dish.
This EXACT same thing happened to me. I also ended up using the EXACT same solution. I thought I was going crazy.
Thank you so much for getting rid of the whole inverter kludge. Be interested in hearing more re your longer-term experience with the 12 Vdc power consumption, measured at dc.
Longer than 4 months?
@@Everlanders maybe I missed the bit where you didn’t use a Killawatt? If so, apologies 🙄😇
32:08
Wow. Couldn't stop watching. So good. Come to Europe! Teach us.
Thank you so much for making this video. I followed your instructions step by step and mine turned out perfectly after several other attempts. keep up the great work. I did have to go into advanced settings and turn off the starlink router setting.