Installation Help / Advise

Terryfields

Hi there,

Looking for some advise, I bought a triax box recently its a saorview with sat and I'm having trouble hooking up the sat LNB connection. From what I gather its the wall outlet that's the issue, its a standard old coaxial wall outlet. I live in an apartment so there is a shared dish wired to the apartment or so I'm told.

I wonder would it be possible for me, (ambitious DIY er!) to change the outlet to support the LNB connection.

Any advise?

Thanks.

Tony

Yes it would be possible for DIY but I'd first check with the management company that you are allowed to do this as they may retain ownership of the network. Satellite wall outlets should be F Type ie screw on and non isolating to allow voltage pass through . Are you sure there's a satellite feed available as its pretty strange that the correct wall plate should not already be fitted

Terryfields wrote: »

I wonder would it be possible for me, (ambitious DIY er!) to change the outlet to support the LNB connection. .

Terryfields

Thanks tony,

I was having a look at it this evening, I screwed off the wall outlet and there are 2 loose cables in the outlet, I'm assuming these are to the satellite. There's one cable connected, that's to the aerial I suppose. I'll get a couple of f connectors tomorrow and hopefully that'll do the job, if not I'll call in the pros!

I spoke to the management guy and he said all the apartments are wired to a shared dish, seems odd they'd fit a single outlet alright.

Tony

Could be one cable with both satellite and aerial signals so don't rule that out:) You can use a diplexer/combiner in reverse if this is the case.

I think your best bet would be to put an f connector on each cable and use a female f coupler to test each cable with a short lead to your receiver.

Hope it works out for you

Terryfields wrote: »

Thanks tony,

I was having a look at it this evening, I screwed off the wall outlet and there are 2 loose cables in the outlet, I'm assuming these are to the satellite. There's one cable connected, that's to the aerial I suppose. I'll get a couple of f connectors tomorrow and hopefully that'll do the job, if not I'll call in the pros!

I spoke to the management guy and he said all the apartments are wired to a shared dish, seems odd they'd fit a single outlet alright.

Terryfields

Seems like you were correct I tried all the loose cables with no luck and then thought sur I'll try what I thought was the aerial one, anyway next problem if you have a minute, I'm definitely connected to the satellite but I'm getting some odd channels, lots of Arabic etc. I've tried different settings on the digi box but no bbc or anything recognizable showing up. Any ideas of what settings, lnb frequency would work best?

Thanks again

Tony

They only thing you can try is Disecq settings if your receiver supports this in the hope that the system is carrying a signal from more than one satellite. Don't change any other setting as I doubt it will help.

Terryfields wrote: »

Seems like you were correct I tried all the loose cables with no luck and then thought sur I'll try what I thought was the aerial one, anyway next problem if you have a minute, I'm definitely connected to the satellite but I'm getting some odd channels, lots of Arabic etc. I've tried different settings on the digi box but no bbc or anything recognizable showing up. Any ideas of what settings, lnb frequency would work best?

Thanks again

Terryfields

I have settings for DISEqC in the menu,with lots of options, numbers and letters, I'm riffling through them at the moment, is there a way to narrow down which ones to use?

Tony

Not unless you know how the system has been set up or someone familiar with your receiver knows the most likely set up.

Terryfields wrote: »

I have settings for DISEqC in the menu,with lots of options, numbers and letters, I'm riffling through them at the moment, is there a way to narrow down which ones to use?

Terryfields

Cool, thanks a million, I'll nab the maintainence fella, he might know.

Tony

No problem, hope you get sorted.

Terryfields wrote: »

Cool, thanks a million, I'll nab the maintainence fella, he might know.

cmurry

Hi,
Triax tsc114 over a year old. I can't remember password, which was changed from 0000 when being set up.
RTE1 tells me to rescan, which I don't know how to do
I don't know how do I reset password, when I don't have existing password.

All help greatly appreciated.
(PS Sorry if I'm in wrong zone - this is my 1st post,)
Thanks

steveon

Master password for Triax TSC114 is 8888

cmurry

Hi Steve,
Thank you for that.
cmurry.