Quad lnb or dual lnb for sky difference?

mustang68

I have a SkyHD and I only have a single lnb on my dish, so I need to run two more cables from the dish, so I need a new lnb.

Question is: is there any functional difference between a quad and a dual lnb, other than the amount of outputs? (I only need two) strangely enough the quads seem to be cheaper.

jhegarty

mustang68 wrote:

I have a SkyHD and I only have a single lnb on my dish, so I need to run two more cables from the dish, so I need a new lnb.

Question is: is there any functional difference between a quad and a dual lnb, other than the amount of outputs? (I only need two) strangely enough the quads seem to be cheaper.

Amount of connections only...

Different LNB come in different qualites, but the connections is the only difference between a quad and single lnb of the same model..

mustang68

Right oh, thanks very much.

byte

I'm not sure if it's possible to get a dual LNB for a Sky Minidish (I presume that's what you have though I'm open to correction).

Quads on the other hand, are much more common place, and so would be cheaper. You'll use 2 outputs for your HD box, though you'll be able to add other digiboxes in other rooms using the 2 spare outputs at a later stage if you so wished.

mustang68

byte wrote:

I'm not sure if it's possible to get a dual LNB for a Sky Minidish (I presume that's what you have though I'm open to correction).

yep, you're right there, and I haven't seen a dual one for a sky dish, only the quad. This thread has cleared all all my questions about dual Vs. quad.

Thanks guys

Quick question,

I have purchased a quad lnb only to find that I cant fit it directly to the sky minidish, any suggestions as to where I could get a suitable clamp?

Thanks

watty

Try www.satellite.ie www.satcure.co.uk Maplin (unlikely)

I do have one I'm not currently using. But I prefer you exhaust other options first.

Tony

Deleted User wrote:

Quick question,

I have purchased a quad lnb only to find that I cant fit it directly to the sky minidish, any suggestions as to where I could get a suitable clamp?

Thanks

Even if you could find a clamp a standard LNB will not perform correctly on a mini dish so I'm afraid your option is to either replace the dish or get a quad lnb suitable for a sky mini dish

TheDriver

For cost of clamps, think satellite.ie do quads fairly handy priced for sky dish itself.

Thanks for the info,

I bought the quad without realising that the sky dish had propiatory (non-standard) fittings

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Sam Radford

Just for the record, a "dual LNB" has effectively two feedhorns pointing at different satellite clusters. A dual LNB of the type controlled by DiSEqC signalling is often referred to by the (I think) French term "monobloc".

A Quad-output LNB and a twin-output LNB have 4 and 2 outputs, respectively. Twin-output LNBs are no longer manufactured for the Sky minidish.

demon3

Deleted User wrote: »

Thanks for the info,

I bought the quad without realising that the sky dish had propiatory (non-standard) fittings

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You can get an adaptor http://www.maplin.co.uk/module.aspx?ModuleNo=221062&doy=29m6 it will allow you to fix any LNB.

I currently have a quad fixed to mine and am running two BBC Freesat HD (two free for later expansion) using this adaptor.

Thanks, in the end I just bought another LNB, so I have a spare one just incase.