Any Octo LNBs for Lidl's 80cm Dish?

Bozacke

I have 2 TVs connected to my Dual LNB and I'm getting a Humax box, so I'll need at least a quad LNB and I hope to eventually get a 2nd Humax box for the other TV and would like at least one more connection for a 3rd TV. So ideally I'd want at least a 5-6 point LNB or even a quad. All the Quads I see listed seem to be for Sky dishes, can anyone reccommend a greater than Quad LND for a Lidl's 80 cm dish?

tomslick

Any OctoLNB will do. All sky quads and octo will do for any normal dish. The "sky" ones come with an adapter to fit it on a sky dish. Without the adapter the LNB will fit onto any dish with a 40mm collar. Lidl dishs are 40mm collars.

JHMEG

I have some quad LNBs that have notches on the neck to keep them in place in the sky collar. These prevent a regular 40mm collar from fitting.

Tony

Sky lnb's and standard 40mm collar LNBS are not interchangeable as stated on here many times. http://www.satcure.com/tech/lnb.htm#SX1019

fat-tony

Is the Lidl dish substantial enough to take the weight of the quad LNB? At minimum it may need to be adjusted due to the "sag" caused by the additional weight at the end of the LNB arm.
I've no specific experience of these dishes - just read the stories about the flimsy brackets etc., but this may be in relation to the smaller size models only.

Bozacke

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the replies. I'll get a 40cm Octo LNB and post back if any problems. Although the Lidl's dish aren't the sturdiest, the extra weight shouldn't be a problem, since for the past year I have had 3 LNBs on the one dish with an adaptor. Although I think 3 LNBs with one being an Octo might be pushing it and since there's very little extra on Astra 19 & Hotbirb that I watch other than maybe CNBC, I'll probably ditch the other 2 LNBs when I get my Humax box set up.

Tony

Bozacke wrote: »

Hi Guys,

Thanks for the replies. I'll get a 40cm Octo LNB

Thats a big lnb Sure you meant 40mm

Bozacke

Hi Tony,

Yes, 40mm!!! lol I'm still not big with metrics!!