New home - which distribution system?
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After a bit of advice...
We've just purchased a new home and are refusing to pay the £350 to install a TV aerial. Anyway, we have the following setup:
Living room - quadplexed plate with Sat1, Sat2, TV, FM/DAB, Return, Telephone
Bedroom - quadplexed plate with Sat1, Sat2, TV, FM/DAB, Return, Telephone
Study - single screened TV outlet
In the loft I have a bunch of un-terminated cable.
Ideally I want to wire up something that meets the following requirements:
Living room - 2 x satellite feeds, TV feed, FM/DAB feed. Not at all interested in return feeds.
Bedroom - 2 x satellite feeds, TV feed. Less interested in FM/DAB here and again not interested in return feed.
Study - TV feed
Worth pointing out that as present there is no power in the loft space.
Just after some advice on what to go for. Have taken a look at both Labgear and Triax and can't see how either can provide 2 x SAT feeds to more than one room.
Thanks
We've just purchased a new home and are refusing to pay the £350 to install a TV aerial. Anyway, we have the following setup:
Living room - quadplexed plate with Sat1, Sat2, TV, FM/DAB, Return, Telephone
Bedroom - quadplexed plate with Sat1, Sat2, TV, FM/DAB, Return, Telephone
Study - single screened TV outlet
In the loft I have a bunch of un-terminated cable.
Ideally I want to wire up something that meets the following requirements:
Living room - 2 x satellite feeds, TV feed, FM/DAB feed. Not at all interested in return feeds.
Bedroom - 2 x satellite feeds, TV feed. Less interested in FM/DAB here and again not interested in return feed.
Study - TV feed
Worth pointing out that as present there is no power in the loft space.
Just after some advice on what to go for. Have taken a look at both Labgear and Triax and can't see how either can provide 2 x SAT feeds to more than one room.
Thanks
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With a conventional lnb the largest number of outlets is 8 (that will allow twin feeds to 4 locations). You can use one of the cables to each location to triplex Satellite, UHF Digital TV and DAB/FM to each location.
Lack of a power supply in the loft shouldn't be an issue, you can send power up one of the coax cables from a power supply using a power supply unit inserted in one of the coax feeds.
Thanks for the pointer on power, hadn't thought of that.
In loft:
Install Triax 333112
Connect tv aerial to UHF1 in
Connect dab aerial to DAB in
Connect fm aerial to FM in
Connect each lnb connection 1 through 4 to sat 1, sat 2, sat 3, sat 4 in
In lounge:
Connect downlink output on 333112 to sat1 in on wall plate
Connect uplink/sat2 on 333112 to uplink/sat2 on wall plate
In bedroom:
Connect r/tv7+sat3 and r/tv8+sat4 on 333112 to the two wall plate connections
In study:
Abandon tv here, use the tv only wall plate to feed the power supply up to the box in the loft.
From what I can gather this should work but would render the uplink port in the bedroom useless (I don't need that anyway). It would also mean no tv in the study.
Thanks
I usually steer clear of combining the Sat feeds into a Loft box (dist. amp), that's not to say that it can't be done with the right device.
You can also buy a powered HDMI splitter ( 1 in & 2 or 3 out ) and run up to 25 metres of HDMI cable to have picture perfect sky
Just use RF 2 out from sky box and a magic eye to change channels and piggy back Freeview signal