What is an RV unit?
In the offer from starlink in this country, saying 'Mobile', there are a
couple of boxes to be put in a car, and a 'flat' antenna. I suspect
that flat antenna for in-car is not motorized, even though they could
micro-motorize some micro parts of it (like motorizing the small
hexagons of a large-diameter mirror of a telescope).
One of the in-car boxes is called a WiFi router; it claims to connect to
at most 12 other such WiFi routers with a 'mesh'. I suspect it is
either for other starlink WiFi routers around the car, or for car-to-car
platoon communications, in case only the platoon's head has the 'flat'
antenna to talk to satellite. Such a use case can be interesting.
So, I think theses starlink devices with flat antenna made to be put in
a car, are with 12Volt adapters.
My question would be whether a platoon-to-platoon communication via a
starlink train (ISL sat-to-sat) without going through a GS (ground
station teleport) is possible today. Probably yes.
Alex
Le 25/09/2023 à 08:05, Noel Butler via Starlink a écrit :
When the heck are starlink going to release a true "RV unit" that is 12v?
Sure we can hack it to do what starlink should have been doing all
along, but that's ugly, it voids our warranties, and is only of use to
those who have some understanding electronics.
Surely they can design a 12v RV modem that has the boost converters
internally so its plug and play in campers or cars/vans, rather than
saying "this is RV - but you need inefficient mains inverters to use
it", they charge a premium for sub standard service (low priority
data), surely they can add an extra, well at my singular buy price $15
in components, to them in mass production it would be more like $5.
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Regards,
Noel Butler
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