Can the DP Plus Separator be used to connect two vip211 receivers or will the separator only work with dual tuner receivers?
Dish Pro Plus Separator
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Only with Dual Tuner receivers. If you were to install it, it might look like it's working at first, but once you try to watch something from 110 on one receiver and something from 129 on the other, it will fail.
does anyone know why? my guess is that only one side of the seperator only passes current on one side.
The answer is NO it wont work
Here is why (I am trying to answer as simply as I can leaving out tech details)
A seperator is to some degree a splitter. Now since communication between the LNBF and the Receiver is bidirectional and the receiver has to power the LNBF only one connection on the seperator is allowed to do this the other one must simply receive.
Example a 322 has a seperator
Tuner 1 gives power to the LNBF and gives commands
Tuner 2 is just receiving signal
Tuner 1 is on 101 sat 119
Tuner 2 in the the same channel
Tuner 2 then changes to 103 which is 110 SO Tunner 1 gives the command for 119 101 and 110 103 to be transmitted and it works
As a fail safe either tuner 1 or 2 can give commands and provide the power, the receiver randomly decides at a reboot. If one fails or has an error it can try the other one.
If you connected two 211 to the seperator both would be unaware of the other and both would try and power up the LNBF (this is not good for the LNBF) next both can give commands and are unware of what the other 211 is watching. Because of this whoever changed the channel last will get to watch what they wanted (that is unless the LNBF or the serperator burn out first)
I claim a separator is in fact a diplexer, with a crossover frequency of ~1550 MHz rather than ~875 MHz.
You are correct, but I'll also note that the only use for such a diplexer that I know of is to function as a DPP separator.
