Pansat 2700 help

[r03jsniper]

I need help so please bare with me. I am not tech saavy, so in other words, I am probably the least smart person on this forum in that respect.

A coworker of mine told me about Pansat and how he has one for his home. And I hated paying for cable and not being able to afford the actual bundles I wanted. Well I bought a pansat receiver and of course he gets fired the next week and leaves on bad terms. So I cant ask him to help me set it up, and noone around knows what a pansat is.

I moved into a home 4 days ago that conveniently already has a dish set up outside. There are 4 coaxial cables coming from it that arent attached to anything.

I have googled every sentence possible to try and find the answers to my next question, but still dont know where to look, what I need to buy, and the process in hooking this up.

Are these 4 coaxial cables live cables, meaning ready to be hooked up and used? Do I need to connect 4 coaxial cables to these 4 connected to the dish? Or since I only have one box, only need to connect one of the cables?

Any answers and help will be much appreciated. I dont know if im in the right forum, or If im asking the right questions, or aloud to ask these questions. Im just in need of help and dont know where to ask

[fn59]

Is it just one dish with 4 cables? How many lnb's?

[r03jsniper]

Is it just one dish with 4 cables? How many lnb's?

yes, Its one dish with 4 lnbs and 4 cables. But I only have 1 receiver i am trying to use

[fn59]

The 4 cables would go to a diseqc switch. Which satellites they're pointed at may be harder to figure out with a ps 2700. If you post a pic of the dish showing the spacing between lnb's, and post the elevation and skew settings on the dish someone may beable make an educated guess what they're pointed at.
As far as making the receiver capable of being used for iks, there should be some threads explaining the procedure.

[abouttosnap]

Here are a couple of links that may help in determining what type of dish you have and hopefully with a picture to help then someone can help you with what you will need to get it going.


https://www.google.com/search?q=dish+plus&client=opera&hs=qwh&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=TCaSU-yhDdPo8AHl_4GYCA&ved=0CFMQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=670

https://www.google.com/search?q=dish+plus&client=opera&hs=qwh&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=TCaSU-yhDdPo8AHl_4GYCA&ved=0CFMQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=670#q=dish+1000&tbm=isch

https://www.google.com/search?q=dish+plus&client=opera&hs=qwh&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=TCaSU-yhDdPo8AHl_4GYCA&ved=0CFMQsAQ&biw=1024&bih=670#q=dish+turbo&tbm=isch

[r03jsniper]

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On the picture with the cables the 2 cut cables arent attached to anything. but the 4 coaxial cables are connected to the dish

It is a direct TV dish

[fn59]

That's a directv slimline dish with 5 lnb's, built in switch.
If you want to use a pansat 2700, remove that dish and get a dish 500 and diseqc switch.

[skywalker999]

remove dish but don't trow it away sell it and buy the dish 500

[jvvh5897]

Or use the dish, but play with the code on the pansat to try to get DTV audio. Since so much is known about the pansat code, the box is a great tool for experimenters and it can always be run with the modded coolsat 4000 code.

Or modify the code to support the DTV LNBs--sure they may not all be of use or have spacing that would be good for other prov, but you would learn something and show others how. I can give you some hints.

[jvvh5897]

In the use guide that came with a B band convertor, the four lines should be 99/101 degree on the left side with 18 V and 13 V switching voltages. The other two lines should be for 103/110/119 degree with similar voltages and 22Khz on. The dangling two lines might have been for 72.5 and 95 degree sats.

As near as I can figure 99/101 18 V should be Ka B band (250-750 MHz IF). And the 99/101 13 V Ka A band (1650-2150 MHz IF) and the others Ku band. But just guessing by-and-large.

[jvvh5897]

I found a Slimline dish in the trash this week--has the SWM LNB with three LNB integrated for 99/101/103. 101 is Ku band and the 99 and 103 LNBs Ka. A new toy to play with!! Ku band is roughly 12 GHz and Ka around 19Ghz. The three scaler openings are elliptical with about 0.75 inches between them--at 17.5 focal length that implies about 2.5 degrees between (99.2 101 102.8 looks like 1.8 degree longitude spacing for the sats, but with locations in NA you have that bumped up to an effective pointing separation of 2.5 degrees). I put the dish on the ground and filled center with water to the edge and got the oval in the middle about 21 by 22.25 inches for offset angle of 18 degrees or so, but another method indicates it might be closer to 16.5 degrees--the diff would only be 0.2 inches more on the 21 inch reading so call it in the ballpark. A 32 inch wide and 22.25 tall dish should be good for linear sats too, so next step would to put a linear LNB on and see how I get a sat or two.

[fn59]

The good thing about those slimline dishes is you can fine tune both the elevation and azimuth.
If you crack open the lnb, you should find a one side of the circuit board is almost entirely gold plated, the other side with the components, the traces are gold plated.
I used to throw bad lnb's away before, then I cracked open a Phase III lnb and seen that gold. Now I save them for the diecast zinc bodies and the boards.

[jvvh5897]

I wasn't going to throw away the LNBs rather try to get something and learn how to do switching on them if I can.

[Aljalabey]

I have pansat 2700a and it was working very good but suddenly in the morning I found high level but zero quality , no signal . I checked the Reciever and LNB and wire connection , also I made restar to the receiver but still zero quality and no signal . Can anybody know how can I fix this problem
Wire and it's connection in a good condition , the Reciever condition good too, but no signal but the level 86% .

[jvvh5897]

Well, as it always is when people as this type of question, look at the dish to see if it has moved.

[anngreg]

I have pansat 2700a and it was working very good but suddenly in the morning I found high level but zero quality , no signal . I checked the Reciever and LNB and wire connection , also I made restar to the receiver but still zero quality and no signal . Can anybody know how can I fix this problem
Wire and it's connection in a good condition , the Reciever condition good too, but no signal but the level 86% .

I believe the file you are use know got defective. You will have to factory reset the box then go back to and older file.

[skywalker999]

that to me looks more like a power supply problem