More than 2 receivers off single drop stacked line

[rjbox]

Hello all. I've attempted to search this topic prior to making a post but was unable to find an answer.

I live in a condo where our building all uses ATT Home Entertainment for Directv service. As such, my 3 drops in my condo are all single lines. They are stacked drops and require a demultiplexer.

In our living room, I purchased a sonora d575 to destack and give myself 2 outputs for a dual tuner dvr. This was great until the dvr (r15) continued to lockup and now I'm looking into a windows media center.

This is where my questions arises. I want to have 4 standard receivers in my living room running off the one stacked drop. Can I just hook the two outputs of the sonora demultiplexer into a 3x4 multiswitch? If not, what do I need to do?

 

[Spize]

Knowing the base of the technology, you should not have a problem if you hook up a standard 3x4 to the 2 outputs.

 

[jdspencer]

Was the Sonora destacker model a d575d? If so, then just connect its two outputs to a 2x4 or 3x4 multiswitch. You need a d575d in order to feed a multiswitch.

 

[rjbox]

great!

Yes, it is a d575d. Thanks for the confirmation and help.

 

[AntAltMike]

You can use any cheap d575 destacker to supply a multiswitch. You put a two way splitter on the line, connect one splitter output port to the 13v switch input, connect the other to the destacker and connect the destcker sat output to the 18v multiswitch input and save a lot of money.

 

[jdspencer]

This is true, but a bit messy with all of the short cables and many connectors.