I’m thinking about installing one in my boat, but I’m in doubt about how the gen 2 actuators work. Does your antenna kept realigning as the boat moves, even at anchor? I’m abroad and here they still sell the gen 2 antenna. The less power hungry gen 2 is a plus, but I don’t know if this is the best option (due to the presence of the motors) or if it’s better to wait for the gen 3 antenna. Disabling the motors would not be the ideal solution for me as I intend to also use the antenna at my house.
The dish is not smaller. The only difference between home starlink and rv starlink is the additional cost for roaming and rv allows you to pause the account when not in use
@@SailingMTPockets Im going to have to disagree. Starlink has only offered 2 dish sizes. 22.3 inch round (discontinued in US) and its replacement 19 x 12 inch. The 20x22 dish is for commercial use $2500.00 plus $500 per month
Have you tried it underway at all? I have seen the base hard mounted, and being used on RV's and on cars out on the Highway doing 90+mph, and on other boats in rocky stormy conditions. I know there are still a lot of holes in their service they are working on filling with each batch of microsatellites they send up. So you might hit areas on crossings where you would lose connection, but the only issues I have seen with people using it in motion are quick disconnects, in the millisecond range which affect things like online gaming where split second reaction times matter. A few other sailers have videos saying they do have very high power consumptions in rocky stormy conditions. But they are still able to use their streaming services at the highest resolution, and use their phones on wifi connection without any noticible issues. I'd love to see you hard mount the dish outside, then do some sailing and motoring and see if you can stay connected in and around your home area, and report back in your follow-up review. Some people have also said in comments on other videos they are planning on getting a multi axis gimbal systems to mount the dish to on their boats to hopefully further cut down on how much the fish motor has to run and cut their power consumption. But as of yet I haven't seen anyone put a specific brand and model they have tried and had success with.
We haven’t tried it underway yet but will be testing soon. So far we haven’t experienced any outages during heavy rain storms, the dish doesn’t seem to move a whole lot, we haven’t disabled the motor. When running on the inverter it’s only drawing between 5-10 Amps which isn’t terrible depending on conditions. Stay tuned for our next follow up video, Thank you for watching!
