4in/4out

[Ridgerunner]

Wondering what the best way is to setup my multi receiver system. Want to have 82/91/110/119 into 4 receivers, looking for advice as it's only ever been 2 receivers for me to this point and I'm looking to expand.

Greatly appreciate any feedback
Ridgerunner

[Mavrick]

Wondering what the best way is to setup my multi receiver system. Want to have 82/91/110/119 into 4 receivers, looking for advice as it's only ever been 2 receivers for me to this point and I'm looking to expand.

Greatly appreciate any feedback
Ridgerunner


4 single DP lnb's into a DP-44 switch, the one issue you might have is if you don't have a sub on port 1 of the switch to power the system. If all 4 receivers are FTA then a power inserter is often needed and it's not advised to connect it in-line with an FTA receiver, so that would leave only 3 open ports for receivers and you would need to cascade the DP-44 to another one which would then give you 6 receiver capability.

[Ridgerunner]

20978 Someone shared this on another site, would this work? Looks like (4) x lnb into (4) 3x4 switch into (4) 4x1 diseqc out to (4) receivers (well shows 3x3x3 in picture with a fourth feed to diseqc from unkown source)

[Terryl]

A 3x4 switch is for 3 satellites to 4 receivers, and is usually for legacy LNB's.

If your using DP equipment (DP type LNB's) and they are not the old legacy type then it wount work too good, as the newer DP type LNB's needs the DP rated high frequency equipment to run right.

What Mavrick mentioned will work fine for 3 FTA receivers or 4 or more if you add a second or third DPP44 switch.

Remeber the more stuff you add to a non powered system adds to the over all system signal loss and the greater the chance that something will go wrong.

Each connection, switch and coax jumper will add 3 to 6 dB of RF voltage loss to the system, the DPP 44 switch has it's own DC power supply, and the cascade outputs to drive a second DPP 44 switch have a booster amp for the IF signals, so the over all system loss to the second and third switch is much less then a non powered switch.

If your not using DP type LNB's (other manufactures and non DP type) then the above setup may work, but keep your cables as short as possible to avoid a total signal loss at the receivers.

And it's also advisable to use two satellite dishes as one dish may not be able to pick up all 4 of the satellites you mentioned, you would need a dish with at least 40 degrees of receive beamwidth to get good signals on all those satellites.

And don't use two dishes with DP twin LNB's on them, (two LNB's in one) the DP twin LNB has internal switching, they will get hopelessly confused and the system will not work.