LNB Advice Please

Grayo

Hi Folks,

I'm new to the forum and would appreciate some advice on LNB's if you don't mind.

Which would you consider to be the better quad lnb, Thomson, Zinwell, or the Wistron.

Any advice would be much appreciated.

Thanks

Grayo

Topper

Welcome to the forum Grayo

Well don't expect a flood of answers since the majority of members are just hobbyists/enthusiasts only the few members who are installers could help you with that answer. Have you tried doing a forum search for quad and reading the threads, I am sure there are some opinions there.

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Grayo

Thanks Topper, I will do a search and have a look.

Regards

Grayo

keano

Hi m8, another guy from South Wales I see.

Looks like thats the place to be if you like sats.

Your LNB "problem"

It might help if you post what dish you have and what size it is.

All LNBF's work differently with different dishes, I have about 6 different ones here I have collected over the last few years.

Now on my 1.1mtr Televes dish I found that the sharp 0.3LNBF was the best by far.
This LNBF also worked very well on my gibertini 1.5mtr dish but it was not as good as a invacom c120 and gibertini feedhorn.

If you have a dish over 1.2mtr then you really need to be looking at a feedhorn and c120.

hope this helps

rolfw

I prefer the Wistron out of the Sky minidish Quad and OCTO LNBs, don't like the Zinwell at all, the Thompson is OK. .

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Grayo

Thanks Lads for getting back.

I'm not as far advanced as you all seem to be, (in fact I can just about handle the remote) All I want to do is setup a multiroom sky system. I bought a quad LNB of Ebay , it was supposed to be a Wistron, but when it arrived it turned out to be a Thompson, so I don't know whether to send it back or keep it.

The dish I have is the standard sky mesh one nothing special

Any advice would be appreciated.

Thanks

Grayo

rolfw

There is very little difference in performance, I would guess that it was pretty cheap, so you haven't got much to lose. Should do the job perfectly satisfactorily.

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Grayo

Thanks Rolfw, It was only £13 so i will give it a go.

Thanks

Grayo

4dbennett

Hi m8 i live in cwmbran and the thompson works fine on my sky dish=

80% strength 65% quality gains so not bad, i had one off E-bay 100% ok

deep joy dave