Poynting Mimo 003 Shark fin Ariel

[Stewart J]

Brilliant service from Solwise their main U.K. distributor, ordered early afternoon yesterday arrived early afternoon today. Also ordered a Voltage regulator ( for the HUAWEI Router) from an eBay seller yesterday it also arrived today. Just need decent weather on Thursday so I can fit the Ariel.
I am not using the double sided adhesive baseplate pad supplied with the ariel instead will clag it down with Sikaflex and pull it down with the supplied extended spigot, anyone else gone this route?

Solwise - MIMO-3-12 POYNTING 2 IN 1 HIGH PERFORMANCE MULTI FREQUENCY ANTENNA - A-MIMO-0003-V2-12 | Solwise Ltd

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[Raul]

I used the pad, but, also a thick bead of CT1 round the spigot. Holds well so far.

 

[Stewart J]

I used the pad, but, also a thick bead of CT1 round the spigot. Holds well so far.

Now you have me wondering Raul, even on the Solwise site they have a link to a video showing adhesive being used rather than the adhesive pad. Link follows

video - Mounting and testing the Poynting LTE Antenna (MIMO-3) on a Motorhome | Solwise Ltd

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[Guigsy]

I had a 4G Poynting antenna of a similar footprint (although not as tall). I was attaching it to a panel van roof and it was wider than the roof ridges. So I scrapped off the adhesive pad (took ages!) then used a solvent to get the last of the sticky off. I then used Sikaflex to stick it down which filled in the extra gaps. I screwed down the collar to pull it tighter to the roof before it went off, which extruded extra goop from the edges and neatened it up... Not sure if that was a good idea or not. But it stayed attached and waterproof for 2 years.

 

[Raul]

What I did, I used a pair of scissors, and cut the pad round the spigot, leaving a 10mm space round the spigot. Before I put the pad on, I bedded the rubber track with ct1, on antenna, then ct1 on the rubber very light, then put the pad on, filled the space I cut with ct1 slightly higher than the pad. The pad is my spacer for the ct1 round the spigot. That’s the only place I wanted to seal. If the pad fails, it’s the ct1 that’s holding round the spigot. CT1 will not fail, unless cut or screwed through. I have been in few storm and it’s been good. Last two days, on Skye, and now on Harris, we has some horizontal rain with some pretty gusty winds.

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[Raul]

See this tread, post 45

Mobile WiFi choice

We have the same system and would echo your comments, but add that it also will repeat an external wifi picking t up from the roof mounted aerial which also gets the cellular signal. Only if you have a separate wifi router connected to the wif aerial side. The aerials with wifi have two pairs...

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