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Diagnose Faulty Quattro LNB - How To Test?
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<blockquote data-quote="Mickha" data-source="post: 1150331" data-attributes="member: 187442"><p>Most of us don't use professional distribution systems, that require a Quattro LNB, and distribution switch, these are generally for Hotels, Appartment blocks, or very big houses, where you want to run a signal to more than 4 rooms.</p><p></p><p>I should imagine that the switch is in the attic, or other location, in the buiding. If you have access to it, and it is just your house, then you can by-pass the switch, and connect the cables together, using a F connector joiner:</p><p>[ATTACH]151043[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>This connects the two F Connectors, one from the LNB, directly to your receiver, by-passing the switch, allowing you to test all 4 ports, Horizontal High/Low, and Vertical High/Low.</p><p></p><p>After 10 years there's a good chance anything could have failed, the LNB trough water ingress, and general wear, the external cabling could have become damaged, the dish might have moved, or the switch failed, due to anything from age, lightning strike, or water, if in an attic, or location that suffers from moisture, water ingress, or if by the sea, the corrosive problem with salt water.</p><p>In most cases the LNB will eventually fail, and require changing, but in your case it might be worth contacting a professional satellite engineer, and paying to have the system checked. Of course, if this is an appartment block, or multiple flats, then other users, of the system, would be experiencing the same problem, and it's up to the owner, to repair it.</p><p></p><p>All this is guess work, because we still don't know your situation.</p><p></p><p>If you do own the building, and have had cables run to 12 outputs, have you checked other rooms, in the house?</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Mickha, post: 1150331, member: 187442"] Most of us don't use professional distribution systems, that require a Quattro LNB, and distribution switch, these are generally for Hotels, Appartment blocks, or very big houses, where you want to run a signal to more than 4 rooms. I should imagine that the switch is in the attic, or other location, in the buiding. If you have access to it, and it is just your house, then you can by-pass the switch, and connect the cables together, using a F connector joiner: [ATTACH alt="F Connector joiner.jpg"]151043[/ATTACH] This connects the two F Connectors, one from the LNB, directly to your receiver, by-passing the switch, allowing you to test all 4 ports, Horizontal High/Low, and Vertical High/Low. After 10 years there's a good chance anything could have failed, the LNB trough water ingress, and general wear, the external cabling could have become damaged, the dish might have moved, or the switch failed, due to anything from age, lightning strike, or water, if in an attic, or location that suffers from moisture, water ingress, or if by the sea, the corrosive problem with salt water. In most cases the LNB will eventually fail, and require changing, but in your case it might be worth contacting a professional satellite engineer, and paying to have the system checked. Of course, if this is an appartment block, or multiple flats, then other users, of the system, would be experiencing the same problem, and it's up to the owner, to repair it. All this is guess work, because we still don't know your situation. If you do own the building, and have had cables run to 12 outputs, have you checked other rooms, in the house? [/QUOTE]
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