Lazy Daze Owners' Group

Re: Roof Structure - Starlink Mini

Reply #25 – November 20, 2025, 05:02:03 am

Thank you for sharing your experience. I surmise that you never run the Starlink other than when you are set up at a camp site?

I think of these use cases:
1. Set up at camp, remote antenna.
2. Set up at camp, close antenna.
3. Parked but not set up.
4. Moving. (I don’t know if this is even allowed with all systems.)

Your arrangement with antenna stowed when not set up to camp supports cases 1 and 2.

The antenna mounted to the RV supports cases 2, 3, and 4.

Mounting the antenna in the skylight but easily removable would support all cases, but involve some finagling.

Battery versus wired, and AC versus DC, are choices available for all mounting arrangements. You have all this figured out, of course, I’m just summarizing my understanding. Please let me know what I may have misunderstood or omitted.

Re: Roof Structure - Starlink Mini

Reply #27 – December 10, 2025, 03:27:45 pm

One more question on the topic, we bought a mini to mount on our Piston Bully groomer for wifi calling for the operator. Our groomer has a sun roof and all fiberglass cab. If we chose to mount the mini to the sunroof glass would it receive through it or would we be better off mounting outside at some location below cab level? We don't want to mount it on the top of the cab because of tree branches.
Thoughts anyone?

Jon

Re: Roof Structure - Starlink Mini

Reply #29 – December 11, 2025, 03:26:49 pm

We use 2 tension rods in the shower of our mid bath. When we stop I set the starlink on the rods and use the plug in the bathroom to power it. The rods are not very thick so we have not tried using them when on the road. As long as there are not many trees it works well. If needed we can put it on a small table and use the plug on the side of the rig to power it.

Re: Roof Structure - Starlink Mini

Reply #31 – December 11, 2025, 09:22:56 pm

We mounted the Starlink mini in our shower skylight. If you search for Starlink mini and my username you will find my previous posts including some pictures. We use it while traveling and in camp. If we have trees over our skylight we can pull it out and deploy it on the ground or on a collapsible flag pole.