Quad LNB Recommendation

void2500

I will buy a quad lnb to my satelite dish, do you have any recommendation of a good one? I will most likely buy from satworld.ie but can buy from anywhere else as well.

LordSutch

I saw one in Peats of Parnell Street last week, couriously it had five outputs (or so I thought), but apparently the 5th one is for an aerial input, so that your four cables will carry the satellite signal combined with the aerial signal all in the same cables from the LNB.
about €60.

Genius.

steveon

Firstly what kind of dish do you have?

If its a sky dish then you need to know what type of Quad you require. If its a fairly new dish check the front bar that holds the lnb in place, if its hollow underneath then you need a quad marked MK4, however a lot of quads can be converted back to the old style bar using a convertor which are about 1euro to buy.

void2500

steveon wrote: »

Firstly what kind of dish do you have?

If its a sky dish then you need to know what type of Quad you require. If its a fairly new dish check the front bar that holds the lnb in place, if its hollow underneath then you need a quad marked MK4, however a lot of quads can be converted back to the old style bar using a convertor which are about 1euro to buy.

Its not a Sky dish, I bought it at satworld with hotbird/astra setup, two lnb's on it at the moment. The plan is to get sky on the astra lnb. As I want to get the FTA channels from hotbird/astra/eurobird to the current receiver and then seperate to the Sky. When I ordered it they estimated the dish needed to be at least 75 cm so I guess thats the size of it. The dish itself is just a few months old. I didn't really understand the thing with hollow underneath, the two lnbs that is there now has only one connector each. Would it help if I took a photo of it?

tomslick

Go to tvtrade.ie as the have "Smart Titanium" quads for €21. Extremely good lnb. I have a twin and it works great on a motor. Otherwise go on ebay. The prices on satworld seem to be very high (€40) for an unnamed quad lnb.

The 1 connection each means the are single lnb. 2 connects are twins and four connections are quads not quattros, they are something completely different. Helpful terms if your buying on ebay or elsewhere.

void2500

tomslick wrote: »

Go to tvtrade.ie as the have "Smart Titanium" quads for €21. Extremely good lnb. I have a twin and it works great on a motor. Otherwise go on ebay. The prices on satworld seem to be very high (€40) for an unnamed quad lnb.

The 1 connection each means the are single lnb. 2 connects are twins and four connections are quads not quattros, they are something completely different. Helpful terms if your buying on ebay or elsewhere.

Is it this you mean?
http://www.tvtrade.ie/universal-quad-lnb.html

I say I should be able to use the same lnb holder as I have now for the single lnb?

tomslick

void2500 wrote: »

Is it this you mean?
http://www.tvtrade.ie/universal-quad-lnb.html

I say I should be able to use the same lnb holder as I have now for the single lnb?

Yes & Yes. Nearly all LNBs are 40mm diameter necks.

void2500

I checked yesterday for Smart Titanium lnb's on ebay, seems like they are going for around 15-20 eur, mainly sold from UK and Germany. My experience is that it would take around one week from UK. Anyone have experience of ordering lnb's on ebay? How well packed are they? Would like a faulty lnb.

Last time I bought a harddrive from Ebay to my laptop it came in a newspaer, obviously the drive didn't work...

Newtown90

void2500 wrote: »

I checked yesterday for Smart Titanium lnb's on ebay, seems like they are going for around 15-20 eur, mainly sold from UK and Germany. My experience is that it would take around one week from UK. Anyone have experience of ordering lnb's on ebay? How well packed are they? Would like a faulty lnb.

Last time I bought a harddrive from Ebay to my laptop it came in a newspaer, obviously the drive didn't work...

All depends on who you buy it from on ebay!

Have bought numerous lnb's on ebay and never had any trouble...

Seen a zinwell quad lnb for like a fiver on ebay so shop around and you'll get a bargain...

boomslang

Have a look here

http://www.satellite.ie/acatalog/LNBs.html

They give a great service and next day delivery around €7

steveon

Would definetly recommend you the smart titanium quad lnb in your case then. Good make and highly reliable lnb.

void2500

I have now ordered a Smart Titanium from Germany on Ebay so will expect it in about a weeks time. I tried to figure out today which lnb that was set up for Hotbird and which Astra, unfortunatelly the dish is installed to high up for a chair to reach the DiseqC and try to pull out a cable so figured out to take a photo and see if anyone would guess, so I can keep an eye on that Sky engineer so he doesn't start messing up the Hotbird once he should install the new LNB

excollier

Looking at that pic, I'd say the dish is centred on 13e, the offset is 19.2e.