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<blockquote data-quote="Terryl" data-source="post: 1010699" data-attributes="member: 369937"><p>That active splitter you mentioned is DC blocked at the outputs according to the spec's from the manufacture, this may be a problem.</p><p></p><p>Have you tried it with just one receiver attached at the far end with the splitter removed from the circuit?</p><p></p><p>The way that splitter works is it has a secondary power supply for the LNB(s), also most LNB's use a DC switching voltage to go between the horizontal and vertical transponders on the satellite, unless your only watching one channel on on transponder, otherwise with a splitter that has DC blocking there would be no way for the individual receivers to go between transponders.</p><p></p><p>Now for a possible problem, if your trying to have individual control of transponders for each IRD so each IRD will be able to channel surf, then that splitter will not work.</p><p></p><p>For individual control on each receiver you will need at least a two output LNB and a 2 in by 8 output switch, this would give each receiver (IRD) the ability to change to a different transponder and differant channels.</p><p></p><p>The switch I mentioned would be able to do this, however it would have to be located at the far end where the receivers are, also a second RG-11 coax would be needed to allow independent control at each receiver. (one coax for the Horizontal transponders and one coax for the Vertical transponders)</p><p></p><p>This way one receiver could be watching a channel on a horizontal transponder and another could be watching a differant channel on the vertical transponder.</p><p></p><p>This is a problem with most linear LNB's that use a DC voltage to switch between transponders.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Terryl, post: 1010699, member: 369937"] That active splitter you mentioned is DC blocked at the outputs according to the spec's from the manufacture, this may be a problem. Have you tried it with just one receiver attached at the far end with the splitter removed from the circuit? The way that splitter works is it has a secondary power supply for the LNB(s), also most LNB's use a DC switching voltage to go between the horizontal and vertical transponders on the satellite, unless your only watching one channel on on transponder, otherwise with a splitter that has DC blocking there would be no way for the individual receivers to go between transponders. Now for a possible problem, if your trying to have individual control of transponders for each IRD so each IRD will be able to channel surf, then that splitter will not work. For individual control on each receiver you will need at least a two output LNB and a 2 in by 8 output switch, this would give each receiver (IRD) the ability to change to a different transponder and differant channels. The switch I mentioned would be able to do this, however it would have to be located at the far end where the receivers are, also a second RG-11 coax would be needed to allow independent control at each receiver. (one coax for the Horizontal transponders and one coax for the Vertical transponders) This way one receiver could be watching a channel on a horizontal transponder and another could be watching a differant channel on the vertical transponder. This is a problem with most linear LNB's that use a DC voltage to switch between transponders. [/QUOTE]
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