Dish with 3 lnbs

[Robbo]

Any 40mm neck LNB will fit each holder. For close together sats like 13E and 16E you have to use the Alps narrow feedhorn.

[SAT-WORLD]

Originally Posted by robbo71

Yep, made my own too, from whatever was lying around. Much easier with the proper bracket though.

Incidentally,it is possible to get a 4-way Diseqc switch working with a monoblock. You short out the first two inputs and connect to the monoblock. apparently.

How do you "short out the first inputs"?
Want to give this a try.
Thanks.

[Caravan72]

Originally Posted by flickster

this what made me try the wood trick,,lol

Is that a zone 2 Sly dish, I've got one of them lying around might be able to fit the Triax multi bracket for 13e, 19e, 28e. As I mentioned, I have a 90 cm Fortec star dish and I read somewhere that some dish's are single foucussed, I've no idea how to recognise this any advise would be appreciated.

[Robbo]

Originally Posted by SAT-WORLD

How do you "short out the first inputs"?
Want to give this a try.
Thanks.

I have never done this myself, but the method I have seen posted several times on another satellites forum is to simply solder a piece of wire to the terminals inside the switch casing. The other method is to use a splitter, with I think, DC pass on both legs.

The third method is to use a TWIN monoblock.

Originally Posted by Caravan72

As I mentioned, I have a 90 cm Fortec star dish and I read somewhere that some dish's are single foucussed, I've no idea how to recognise this any advise would be appreciated.

Almost all dishes are single focussed, when you use an offet LNB what you get will be out of focus. Thus with these setups you put the weakest sat at the focus, and the stronger ones at offsets.

[SAT-WORLD]

Originally Posted by robbo71

I have never done this myself, but the method I have seen posted several times on another satellites forum is to simply solder a piece of wire to the terminals inside the switch casing. The other method is to use a splitter, with I think, DC pass on both legs.

The third method is to use a TWIN monoblock.

Thanks,robbo71
Saw the photo,on the other forum,and carried out the soldering of the wire between LNB 1 and LNB 2 inputs.
However it only worked temporarily,leading me to the conclusion that the Diseqc switch was faulty.
As my other diseqc switches are certainly not cheap,I don't want to attempt another modification with them.
Will try using a splitter ,and will report back.
Already have a twin monoblock connected,and was using that,until I made changes to the setup.
Thanks for the help.
By the way,I just discovered your Arabic signature,naughty naughty

[Robbo]

Originally Posted by SAT-WORLD

By the way,I just discovered your Arabic signature,naughty naughty

****, the cat's out of the bag now

Yes let us know how you get on.

[bigtee]

[SAT-WORLD]

Have now tried connecting the monoblock to a splitter,and can report it does work.
It certainly needs to a power pass splitter,as using a non power pass splitter did not work for either Astra1 or Hotbird.
However,a couple of transponders on Hotbird,were showing no signal qaulity: (12476H and 12437H)
Unfortunately,the transponders have favourite channels,so I've had to resort back to using the A-B switch.
Again,Thanks robbo71 for the suggestions.