Not my setup, found on top of a pub roof, can you work it out?

image · 05-08-2009

I am admittedly a bit of a beginner when it comes to anything non-sky, but as far as I know disecq switches are used for multiple LNB setups, yet I can see three here for a single quad... bit baffled.

Any ideas?

**satelliteman** · 05-08-2009

Are you sure there aren't any more dishes tucked away on the building?

**rolfw** · 05-08-2009

Must be, in fact the first photo shows another dish, the two feeds of the dish in the picture go into the second two DiSEqC switches.

image · 05-08-2009

They had dedicated sky recivers for the 60cm Zone2 Sky dish to the right, though.

How would that work?

**PaulR** · 05-08-2009

There doesn't have be another dish, in fact from the photos I don't think there is.

The 4 way DiSEqC switches only have 4 leads going in to them. There would have to be 5 (1 downlead, 4 to 4 dishes) otherwise.

I think that the setup is 3 different satellite positions for 3 different DiSEqC aware receivers.

No, correction. The dish shown has only 2 leads and one of the DiSEqC switches only has 3 leads so it's 3 satellite positions for 2 receivers and 2 postions for one receiver.

image · 05-08-2009

There were two Technomate 1500ci recievers, but with a fixed position dish, seemed a bit odd?

**PaulR** · 05-08-2009

Originally Posted by image

as I know disecq switches are used for multiple LNB setups

Correct but the multiple LNBs don't have to be on the same satellite dish.

Originally Posted by image

There were two Technomate 1500ci recievers, but with a fixed position dish, seemed a bit odd?

Not really. It's a way for each receiver to have the choice of 2 or 3satellites. I suspect that there used to be a third receiver somewhere as well.

image · 19-08-2009

Just to boost you're ego, you were right.

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