Medium dish farm installation recommendations/questions

[sirwoogie]

Long time listener, first time caller here. Hey all!

I bought a new house with plenty of property and great view of the belt; no obstructions through the arc. It came with a non-functional no) 8.5' BUD (previous owner ran into it and bent the 3-6 position mesh a little). It got my juices flowing, and now here I am.

I wanted to get into FTA, and I've been crafting the best design for my needs, and I want to run it by the more experienced for recommendations and some outstanding questions. Please refer to the diagram in the attachment.

Questions

• If I want to have both receivers control the motor, which would be the best way to accomplish this? Splitter? Multiswitch?
• If I get a new BUD or fix the existing one, where should I put him in the mix so that I might have both my 922 4DTV and the Pansat get at the LNBs? I realize to move the actuator, I'd have to use the 922 to do it.
• The run from each switch to the receivers is about 200ft of cable. Any issues you see there?
• Since I have the quad that will let me do DBS, I can do that with the Pansat no? Or, do I have to run that into a legacy receiver?

Anything else I should do here? Comments extremely welcome!

 

[Mr Tony]

welcome!

Questions

• If I want to have both receivers control the motor, which would be the best way to accomplish this? Splitter? Multiswitch?

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  Not real easy to have 2 units move the motor unless you slave the PC card through the receiver. Since the motor runs through the cable, you’d only have one cable running through the motor.
  
  

  [*]The run from each switch to the receivers is about 200ft of cable. Any issues you see there?

  Should be fine with that cable..make sure its good RG6
  
  

  [*]Since I have the quad that will let me do DBS, I can do that with the Pansat no? Or, do I have to run that into a legacy receiver?

  You can get the free stuff on DBS like the audio (sans Sirius) and NASA & Angel One. See the “what can I get with a 18” dish” thread in the FAQ section.

 

[sirwoogie]

Thanks for the reply. I thought I might have to slave the cable. The cable is the stuff you pick up from Sadoun and I'm using compression ends.

I did read the FAQ on the "18" but it was never real clear to me whether a standard FTA receiver would do it, of if I needed a specific "service" receiver that was unreged. So, that means the Pansat will work... good. So, I wonder, is it better to slave, and only need to use one switch then? Me thinks it would... then I only have to run one receiver cable from the switch to the pansat, then daisy chain the pci card to it.

Brings up another question: what can I do to split a slave connection from the pansat if I want to run it as above and slave a 922 4DTV to it? Or, should I just avoid that complication?

Thanks berg!