Sky 6 port Hybrid LNB

danny004

Hi a Neighbor of mine has ordered SKY Q installation date next week. Their dish is pretty high up and over an extension on the house with an apex roof so I think not only because of the height but also because of the Apex roof in the dishes way the installer will refuse or even not be able to get up there with the best will in the world
I have access to a load all height for hire over the weekend so can get up there pretty easy and when I got Q installed the installer left me with a 6 port hybrid.
My question is if I change this tomorrow can any ports feed the existing HD box until Q box installation next week or are there dedicated ports that have to go to the Q box and the other four for traditional boxes such as SKY HD.
I really only have one shot at getting it right and dont want it to be connected to the wrong ports when the installer arrives next week

the model of the LNB is EL010 which I believe is Skys latest lnb plus also all outputs are unmarked
thanks for any help

Charles Slane

This is from the Q&A of the LNB on one of the sales sites. Hope it helps -

"Having read in some places about needing to use two specific outputs for Sky Q I was concerned that the LNB had no markings on its outputs to indicate which should be used for Sky Q. In fact it doesn't matter. This LNB will support Sky Q on any of its outputs: the Sky Q box sends a signal to the LNB on the outputs to which it is connected, switching those outputs to wideband mode. So the LNB works universally on any of the outputs with Freesat receivers, Sky+ HD boxes and Sky Q."

The Cush

danny004 wrote: »

My question is if I change this tomorrow can any ports feed the existing HD box until Q box installation next week or are there dedicated ports that have to go to the Q box and the other four for traditional boxes such as SKY HD.
I really only have one shot at getting it right and dont want it to be connected to the wrong ports when the installer arrives next week

the model of the LNB is EL010 which I believe is Skys latest lnb plus also all outputs are unmarked

Just to confirm what was posted by Charles Slane, the Sky supplied hybrid is a smart hybrid where any port can be legacy or wideband and so will work with the existing SkyHD receiver until the changeover to SkyQ.

There was a new non-smart hybrid launched in recent times from Labgear with 2 x Wideband, 4 x Quad outputs. This may cause some confusion in the years ahead as some may not be aware of the difference between the two types.

danny004

Thanks to both of ye guys thats been really helpful