B3V/DN wiring question... please help

[echofan]

Hi,
Testing DN 110,119 and 129 with sv8000 for several years. One dish has 110,119 and second dish has 129
feeding 4 way diseqc witch.

I also have a bev sub on my 3rd dish with 91 and 82 via sw44 to a bev 9400 single tuner ird. sat in #1 has inline power inserter inside the house. #3 and #4 are free on sw44 (#2 is connected to sat 2 behind the 9400 ird)

Today I purchased a donation to test Bev with same sv8000 but I need to wire this up correctly.
I was able to scan 91 by switching the line with power inserter and then used the 82 feed off sat 2 in 9400 and all channels scanned no problem...
However, after several hours i cant seem to figure out what to do to share the feed from my existing bev settings so I can get both DN and Bev on same sv8000
can somebody please point me to a diagram or thread were i can figure this out?
I search every were here but I didn't find a fix for my setup
any help is appreciated
thanks

[jvvh5897]

Feed the 4th line from the diseqc sw to one of the unused ports on the sw44 would be my guess. Not sure if the sv box has the flexibility needed to both set diseqc sw and send required cmds to the sw44, so just guessing (kind of the type of question that might be best asked in the sonicview section--I do seem to recall that one of the channel lists I looked at from sv8k HD had pretty much the same setup as you and might give you a clue or two ).

[Mavrick]

You can try an Ecoda 22KHz on one of the outputs of the SW44 then it connects to the sv8000 receiver, so one side of the Ecoda 22KHz will go to the sw44 and the other side of the Ecoda 22KHz will go to the diseqc switch for your 3 dn sats. And try using SW-42 Dish 1 & 2 protocol on the sv8000 receiver for the 91 & 82 sats. So your sv8000 settings will look something like this depending how you hook it all up.......

91 - SW-42 Dish 1 > 22KHz on
82 - SW-42 Dish 2 > 22KHz on
110 - diseqc 1 > 22KHz off
119 - diseqc 2 > 22KHz off
129 - diseqc 3 > 22KHz off

[echofan]

Thank you guys I will give this a try and report back

[Terryl]

The types of LNB's in use will make or break the setup.

Testing has shown that all LNB's should be of the same type and brand. (all DP pro singles worked the best)

We know you have the old style legacy LNB's on the BEV side, (using an SW44 switch, this is an old style switch) but what about the LNB(s) on the Dish side???

If different then you could have switching problems in the SV8K receiver, it may not like it.

Also the two systems should be grounded to the same ground point.

[Glatt]

For $5.00 buy a SW21 switch and put b€v 81 and 91 to port 4 on diseqc!

[echofan]

reporting back;
the solution was an inverted sw21 switch behind ird inside house... this is what I did so maybe it helps somebody

- new wire from SW44 output 3 that was free on my BEV dish (sw44) to sat 1 on sw21
- DN feed from 4 way diseqc to sat 2 on inverted sw21
- from the sw21 "out to receiver" I used short cable to receiver
- Adjusted bev sat settings to sw21 on sv8000

now testing both bev and dn with one ird...All I have to do is switch servers inside network settings to go from one service to the other.
maybe there are other solutions that don't require a new cable but this is just fine for me
thanks for all that responded

[Mavrick]

I am surprised that an SW21 works considering that your SW44 on the Bev side works on the same "SW" protocol, you would think there would be a conflict there and cause switching issues which is why I suggested the 22kHZ switch instead. But hey if it works good on you

[jets]

Just take the one of the open diseqc port not in use for 110,119,129 and connect it to the open SW44 port of the 82, 91 dish.

So if diseqc is:

port 1 = 119
port 2 = 110
port 3 = 129
port 4 = 91 SW44, dish 1
port 4 = 82 SW44, dish 2

Most SV8K I have seen can do this config no problem. But like Terryl always say make sure you use ground blocks where possible.

[redhawk]

reporting back;
the solution was an inverted sw21 switch behind ird inside house... this is what I did so maybe it helps somebody

- new wire from SW44 output 3 that was free on my BEV dish (sw44) to sat 1 on sw21
- DN feed from 4 way diseqc to sat 2 on inverted sw21
- from the sw21 "out to receiver" I used short cable to receiver
- Adjusted bev sat settings to sw21 on sv8000

now testing both bev and dn with one ird...All I have to do is switch servers inside network settings to go from one service to the other.
maybe there are other solutions that don't require a new cable but this is just fine for me
thanks for all that responded

you guys sure know your stuff....! but for some guys, a picture is worth a thousand words...!