Spare Standard Box

Radharc na Sleibhte

Hi,

I recently upgraded to Sky+ so I've a standard box spare.
Is there any use to this or should I just f it out?

Also, I wanted to put the wee "eye" in my bedroom but the installer said my aerial sockets weren't the right ones to allow that. I thought they were all the same? I have it that I can watch the channel thats playing on the box in another room alright, but apparently the eye I bought that would allow me to change the station form my bedroom is now useless.
PS house is brand brand new.

mjsmyth

You could run cable from the dish to another room and use it for receiving all the free channels (detailed elsewhere on the boards).

If you don't want to do that and are gonna throw it out, I'll gladly take it off your hands (depending on where you are). A friends house was hit by lightning earlier in the week and both his sky boxes are blown!

MJ

Triangle

Mikey,
We had the same probelm with our aerial sockets, but i found out that the problem was witha fuse embedded in the sockets. I either could get a new unprotected scket and replace them or just remove the socket and have a direct connection (i.e. cable to cable)
But short story - it worked for me (both ways, i.e. getting cheap sockets in maplin and cable to cable)

Sam Radford

It's because the socket is decoupled with capacitors. You could try simply shorting out the capacitors with a bit of wire. See photo here:
http://satcure.net/tech/wallplates.htm
The capacitors are the small round brown discs.

Radharc na Sleibhte

Huh, thanks for the info.
Can I just change the sockets or is all the wiring not suitable either?
If I can get away with just changing the sockets, can just I change the one I want to plug the eye into?

or see http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055371071
Clum has a spare box like me, and is looking to use it to get the FTA channels.
Whats a quad LNB? Would I need one of them too?
What channels would you get?

Radharc na Sleibhte

Looking into this a bit further now as it has become a pain, so I have two questions.
1/ Can I just change the sockets or is all the wiring behind not suitable either?
2/ If I can get away with just changing the sockets, do I just change the one I want to plug the eye into?

oh and more now...Can I do it myself? Do i need to turn the electricity off?

When the guy came to put the signal from the box around the house, he took the feed from the back of the box, and wired this directly into the wire behind the aerial socket so that would validate what Sam Radford and Triangle have said.

Radharc na Sleibhte

Also, amn't I right in thinking you can only have one "eye"?

Radharc na Sleibhte

I still have the spare standard box hanging around. I have Sky+ in sitting room. I wanted to get the fta channels in the bedroom on the standard box. Is it an awful job getting the spare one wired up? Does anyone know any guys up this area that could do it for me?

Also, I would like him to change a few of the sockets that don't have the fuse embedded in the sockets??