The single most common mistake we see in new accessory ranges is treating "Starlink accessories" as one product family. It is not. The Mini, the Standard and the Actuated/Performance kits differ at the three points that matter to an accessory business: how the dish is powered, how it attaches to a mount, and which connector terminates the DC run. A bracket designed around the Standard's mast will not hold a Mini correctly, and a power supply specified for the Standard will not sit comfortably in a Mini install. Here is the working breakdown our customers use when they plan a range.
Power: the biggest commercial difference
The Starlink Mini takes a regulated DC input and ships with a power supply that expects mains. The Standard kit runs from a proprietary power unit with a different input range and a different connector. This is the reason the power supply is where accessory revenue concentrates, and also where mismatches generate returns. The practical rule for a reseller: stock power products per kit generation rather than per generic "Starlink", label them clearly with the kit they serve, and keep the DC cables in kit-matched lengths. A 36V regulated unit built for the Mini is a genuinely different article from a Standard-compatible supply, and buyers who mix them end up with a support ticket that costs more than the cable was worth.
Mounting interface
Each kit presents a different interface to the mount. The Mini has a compact mast and a flat-bottom geometry that suits magnetic and suction mounting as well as a pole clamp. The Standard dish has a larger, deeper body with a different collar arrangement. Suction mounts in this category are engineered specifically for the Mini and for smooth, flat vehicle glass and roof panels — they are not a generic dish holder. When you spec a mount, ask which kit it clamps to, what the clamp range is in millimetres, and whether the dish can still be tilted and aimed after mounting. That last point sounds trivial until a customer discovers the dish is fixed at 15 degrees after a long install.
Connectors and cable
DC cable assemblies are the accessory where a mismatch is most visible because the customer sees it immediately. The Mini uses a DC 5521 terminated run in the common configurations; the Standard uses its own terminations. Cable quality also shows up in the field: oxygen-free copper conductor and a proper IP67-rated jacket are what keep voltage drop within specification over a 10-metre run, and they are what separate a cable that works in August from one that fails in January. Specify conductor gauge, jacket rating and length in the same product record so that any supplier quoting against your spec cannot substitute a thinner wire.
How to structure the range without doubling your stock
Our recommendation to resellers and Amazon sellers is to build the range around the kit that is actually shipping in your market, and then add the second kit only where demand justifies it. In most territories today that means the Mini first. Structure the catalogue as: mounting (one or two options per kit), power (regulated supply plus a cable set in two or three lengths), protection (a weatherproof enclosure or a padded transport case), and a small number of bundle SKUs. Bundles are where margin hides — a mount plus a cable plus a case sold as one SKU gives a better landed cost than three separate items, and it solves the customer's "what else do I need" problem without a support conversation.
Use the model dictionary, not a spreadsheet
Starlink adds and revises kit types. A spreadsheet of compatible models goes stale within a season and then quietly costs you returns. PLZTECH keeps the model list in a maintained table behind the scenes, and it drives the compatibility filter on this site, the model field on every product record, and the compatibility data in the guides you are reading. If you resell on marketplaces, that same table can feed your listing attributes so that a buyer searching for a Mini-specific mount does not land on a Standard mount page.
Ask us for the matrix
Send us the kits you intend to cover and the volume per kit, and we will return a compatibility matrix showing exactly which of our mounts, power units, cables and enclosures fit which model — plus the MOQ tier for each line. We would rather you stock the right forty pieces than the wrong four hundred, and we will tell you plainly if a product in your draft catalogue does not fit the kit you are actually shipping.