I plan to have an electrician do the 'official' installation. But I'm curious about this hole in the Starlink Pole Mount - the instructions refer to a "drain hole" and a "cable routing hole". Is this hole (yellow arrow) both of those things? Thanks for your help.
David, I am not an expert installer and the way I did was the best with the info I had at the time
You do not need the pipe adapter, if you are using the mount sold by Starlink, The pipe adapter is to use when the pole mount is a regular pipe you use instead.
The Standard kit cable worked very well to route the cable inside, The High performance kit, the cable is thicker so you have to run it outside or just enlarge the upper hole to be able to run it inside the pole like I did.
I attach the instructions that came with the Starlink Ground Pole Mount
Hello, I do not know the answer to that but I want to know if the pole in the photo is the GROUND POLE MOUNT that we can buy in the starlink store for (about) 80 / 90 dollar? Reading the words ground pole mount made me think it was only the mount that shifts over the pole, but not the actual pole itself. thank you very much! David
That hole is for the output of the cable. The cable goes inside of the pole. It works ok with the Standard Kit. From the manual that came with the SL Groud Pole Mount "8. Route the Starlink cable through the cable routing hole and out the top of the pole:
Hey Michelle, Great question. Looking at Starlinks instructions it is just a drain hole, the cable is run externally. That being said, some of the poles we've used we did run the cable down the center to help protect them, if the Starlink pole is hollow, at least till the drain hole then you would be able to do the same thing. This will help protect the cable better, however if your planning on moving the Dishy around I would just do an external run.