Advice Needed DiSEqC Switch - Dish Side or Decoder Side ?

[moonbase]

Hi,

Can anyone please advise me of the best location for a DiSEqC switch, is it outdoors close to the dishes or indoors close to the decoders?

Also, any recommendations for a make/model would be useful, either a two input or 4 input will be fine? A quick check on eBay shows models from Amiko, Global Invacom, Konig, Octagon and Technomate, plus a lot of other makes I have never heard of. There were a few Spaun switches from EU sellers but none from UK sellers.


Rgds

 

[Lazarus]

Shouldn't make a lot of difference where you site it as far as losses are concerned.

Normally, cable-saving is the main aim, hence locating them outside, as a rule.

So make sure whatever make you get, it has a plastic rain hood.

eg Mix Digital High Quality DiSEqC 2/1 Switch with Weatherproof Cover

 

[Lazarus]

PS: Always power down the receivers before fitting these switches ..... I goosed one by taking a shortcut.

Hence the link ...... that's the replacement!

 

[Mickha]

When I had to use one, I had it inside, it saved having to waterproof it, but others have them near the dish, either way works.
I just bought a cheap, 4 way, IDTE Diseqc switch, which worked, for as long as I needed it, just a few months, while I moved house, and got my main dish set up.
I haven't needed it since.

 

[4wd]

Mine are close to dish, less cables entering the house. With plastic hood, even the cheapest ones working year after year, surviving winters, snow and rain (in Norway). 4 ways, if not all inputs used always good to have some extras for the future.

 

[RimaNTSS]

I do not think that waterproofing is necessary, and it is more than enough to cover Diseqc in the way that rain does not make it wet. ATM I have 4x 1/10 Diseqcs located behind the dish in self-made box. There are 4 Quad LNBs feed them. I am pretty sure those Diseqcs are > than 10 y.o. and still work fine.