Quad LNB

Aug 09, 2010 6 Replies

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Harry Bloomfield 15 years ago

We have an old-ish (dating from a year or two after the start of digital) Sky dish fitted with an LNB, which we resurrected last year for a none Sky digital box use. I am now finding reception fails after a few minutes watching a certain channel (BBC 1 and perhaps others less watched). I'm fairly sure the box is OK, the alignment OK and the cabling is OK, but think it may be the LNB - so I'm looking to replace it.

All they seem to sell is quad LNB's, but I only need one output at the moment. Can I just connect to one output and seal up the others?

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Dr Hfuhruhurr 15 years ago

Yep. No problem at all.

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Jim 15 years ago

Good practice to run a couple of cables whilst you're at it. Co-ax is cheap, and in the future you might want a digital box.

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Dr Hfuhruhurr 15 years ago

That's a good call for future proofing. Plenty of self amalgamating tape otherwise.

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therustyone 15 years ago

Old Sky single LNB's are often found at boot sales. Or installer usually have a plastic bucket full of them in the garage and will sell them for a quid.

Rusty

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Dave Liquorice 15 years ago

CPC have several single output LNBs.

Yes. Be aware that most LNBs use a 40mm circular mounting ring. Sky mini dish LNBs just have prong that sticks into the end of the mounting arm, you can get adpaters.

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John Rumm 15 years ago

Yup. Or take a second co-as in so that you can use a twin tuner PVR in the future.

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