Well after many many delays I finally got the T90 dish back up 
I had taken it down in the spring for various reasons but decided to put it back up. Finally had a weekend (last weekend) to do it. Been drawing up "blueprints" as to how everything should be wired.
Then it rained
and rained
and rained
for 4 days
Finally got the dish set back up Wednesday night..got my true south set up and called it a night....Thursday put all the LNB's on it and was all set to go. Moved the 36" dish for G10 over and put the 6 footer back up. Was going to keep the StarChoice dish up for 30W but it blocks the view of the 6 footer so down it came.
Friday was the big day to wire everything up. Had LNB's set up on
72,74,79,85,87,93,97,101,107,110...119 & 123 on the 36" dish. Originally was going to have 74/79, 85/93, 97/101 on 4x4 switches. The 87 would be dedicated to the CS8000 since it can decode AC-3. 107 for SC sub and 110/119 for Dish sub.
And we ran into issues...but I learned a lot. I learned you can't mix 2 LNB's on one side of a multiswitch and run it into a Diseqc. I was going to have 101 H and 123 V on one side of the 4x4 multiswitch but the receiver wouldn't decode it once it went through a diseqc. So back to the drawing board. Then I figured set up most of the LNB's on 2 receivers instead of 3. I wanted to have on the Coolsat 8000 8 LNB's but since the 8000 doesn't have blind scan why bother. So I figured to set up most of the LNB's on the Pansat 1500 & Visionsat. But that would take a bunch of 22k switches
Oh wait....I have these Ecoda 22k switches that supposedly can pass Diseqc tones. So I figured set it as up as such 72,74,79,85 on one 4x1 diseqc and 93,97,99,123 on another for one setup...74,85,93,97 on one 4x1 diseqc and 101,119,99,123 on another setup
72,79,101 are single LNB's
So after ripping out all the wiring and zip ties I wired up the 2 4x1 diseqc switches and hooked them to the 22k switch. I really wanted to see if this would really pass DIseqc tones. And yes they do!!
So finished wired up everything and now it all works
Took 2 3x4 multiswitches for 99 C-Band and 123 KU.
Took 4 4x1 diseqc switches. One has 72,74,79,85...another has 74,85,93,97...another has 93,97,99,123 and the last 101,119,123,99. Then wired it all up to the receivers. So now that it's finished (and works) we're set up as such
Coolsat 8000 can see 99, 123, 87 and a feed from the motorized (in case there is some HD programming)
Viacast gets 99 & 123
Pansat 1500 sees 72,74,79,85,93,97,99,123
Visionsat sees 74,85,93,97,101,99,119,123
I'm happy that the Ecoda switches can pass Diseqc as advertised. Now instead of a bunch of 22k switches I only needed 2
Pictures of the setup. The pictures of the switches are all screwed below the table and out of the elements...I might put some plywood around it. Yes the one picture of the wires is crazy
But all I care is it all works now.
I had taken it down in the spring for various reasons but decided to put it back up. Finally had a weekend (last weekend) to do it. Been drawing up "blueprints" as to how everything should be wired.Then it rained
and rained
and rained
for 4 days
Finally got the dish set back up Wednesday night..got my true south set up and called it a night....Thursday put all the LNB's on it and was all set to go. Moved the 36" dish for G10 over and put the 6 footer back up. Was going to keep the StarChoice dish up for 30W but it blocks the view of the 6 footer so down it came.
Friday was the big day to wire everything up. Had LNB's set up on
72,74,79,85,87,93,97,101,107,110...119 & 123 on the 36" dish. Originally was going to have 74/79, 85/93, 97/101 on 4x4 switches. The 87 would be dedicated to the CS8000 since it can decode AC-3. 107 for SC sub and 110/119 for Dish sub.
And we ran into issues...but I learned a lot. I learned you can't mix 2 LNB's on one side of a multiswitch and run it into a Diseqc. I was going to have 101 H and 123 V on one side of the 4x4 multiswitch but the receiver wouldn't decode it once it went through a diseqc. So back to the drawing board. Then I figured set up most of the LNB's on 2 receivers instead of 3. I wanted to have on the Coolsat 8000 8 LNB's but since the 8000 doesn't have blind scan why bother. So I figured to set up most of the LNB's on the Pansat 1500 & Visionsat. But that would take a bunch of 22k switches
Oh wait....I have these Ecoda 22k switches that supposedly can pass Diseqc tones. So I figured set it as up as such 72,74,79,85 on one 4x1 diseqc and 93,97,99,123 on another for one setup...74,85,93,97 on one 4x1 diseqc and 101,119,99,123 on another setup
72,79,101 are single LNB's
So after ripping out all the wiring and zip ties I wired up the 2 4x1 diseqc switches and hooked them to the 22k switch. I really wanted to see if this would really pass DIseqc tones. And yes they do!!
So finished wired up everything and now it all works
Took 2 3x4 multiswitches for 99 C-Band and 123 KU.
Took 4 4x1 diseqc switches. One has 72,74,79,85...another has 74,85,93,97...another has 93,97,99,123 and the last 101,119,123,99. Then wired it all up to the receivers. So now that it's finished (and works) we're set up as such
Coolsat 8000 can see 99, 123, 87 and a feed from the motorized (in case there is some HD programming)
Viacast gets 99 & 123
Pansat 1500 sees 72,74,79,85,93,97,99,123
Visionsat sees 74,85,93,97,101,99,119,123
I'm happy that the Ecoda switches can pass Diseqc as advertised. Now instead of a bunch of 22k switches I only needed 2
Pictures of the setup. The pictures of the switches are all screwed below the table and out of the elements...I might put some plywood around it. Yes the one picture of the wires is crazy
But all I care is it all works now.
