Connecting dp quad lnb to 625 dpp rcvr

[dje1024]

Hi everyone,
I'm hoping someone here can help me out. My cousin has a dish 500 with a dp quad lnb and a dpp dvr625 rcvr. She moved and took her equipment with her. She tried to hook it back up but when she did it wouldn't work. I tried to help her but I'm not sure how to run the wires. There are 4 cables coming off the lnb and she has for diplexers I believe that is what they are called(dpd2), and she has another dual tuner rcvr that is dpp(sorry I don't remember the model). How should these be wired to get it to work?

 

[Mr Tony]

The 625 requires two lines from the LNB
Actually both receivers (if dual tuner) require 2 lines each from the LNB since the LNB is DishPro

 

[dje1024]

Ok I understand that but how would I wire the diplexers to only have 2 lines running into the house instead of four.

 

[Mr Tony]

are they diplexers or are they Separators? What does it say on the switch?

To only need one cable per receiver you need a DishProPlus Twin LNB

 

[dje1024]

Sorry but I don't know the difference. they have 3 prongs, one says sat, one says vhf/uhf, one says in/out. They were hooked up before in a way that 2 cables came into the house, I am just not sure how to hook them back up, she disconnected everything when she moved it. I am just trying to get it hooked back up so that it will work for her, so far I have had no luck.

I realize now that she was wrong about how it was hooked up, we drove to her old house and looked at where the cables connected and I see how the diplexers were wired(to split signal for 2 tvs). So this brings up another question, if I wanted to connect 1 rcvr to 1 tv would I then just run 2 wires into the sat 1 and sat 2 inputs, and does it matter which 2 wires from the lnb I connect to the rcvr?

 

[Ray C]

dje1024,

With the DPP you would need to run separate cables from the LNB to the receiver; satellite 119 would go to Sat 1 in and 110 to Sat 2. If you have 2 receivers, you would need a switch (DPP 33). You might go back to the old house to see if you can find that switch.

 

[TheKrell]

Iceberg is right. You would use all 4 cables from a quad to the two duo receivers. You may use any of these 4 lines for the TV2 backfeed using diplexers. (Note that diplexers work in pairs.)

If you want to use only a single coax per receiver, then you have two options. (1) Replace the quad with a DPP twin, or (2) add a switch such as the DPP33.

 

[dje1024]

Ok thanks for the help guys I am going to try again today and see if I can get it working.