How To "daisy chain" recivers together.

[skewed]

I know that this can be done and i'm sure it is not hard but I would really like to be told how to do it so I do not rish dammage to my boxes. I have a viewsat ultra and a pansat 2500. As we all know the pansat is a bad mamma jamma when it comes to blind scanning. I currently use the viewsat to watch tv for the these reasons, 1) the pansat remote bites big time and is hard to change channels, 2) the viewsat tuner is alot better 3) I use the r,b,g outputs of the viewsat for a better picture 4) the viewsat moves the dish better and fine tunes better BUT i like to use the pansat to blind scan. Right now what I have been doing is disconnecting the the viewsat, and hooking up the pansat to blind scan then switching back. Can someone tell me the exact routine for hooking the pansat and the viewsat together and the procudure. The reason I am concerned is I know there is voltage coming down the cable and I do not want to fry either one of these boxes buy things such as turning them both on at the same time or something and also what will I have to do with the sound? Thanks in advance.

 

[Sadoun]

Use the LOOP OUT on one of the receivers to hook up the second receiver in series.

 

[USDownlink]

As we all know the pansat is a bad mamma jamma when it comes to blind scanning. ... 2) the viewsat tuner is alot better

Normally I would read these statements as contradictory, however, since I also am vaguely aware that an Ultra's blind-scan is terrible, I'm not sure there is a fair comparison between the two. I'm curious as to what led you to this conclusion.

Anyway, I'll let others with less fear and familiarity with the receivers in question to walk you through a loop out wiring. I'm going to suggest, instead, that you consider running a second coax in from the LNB. (This assumes you have a dual output LNB. If not, forgive me and disregard.) I always hesitate to wire things in that configuration unless absolutely necessary- I find the added noise and attenuation through the first reciever unacceptable a fair amount of the time.

Okay, well, looping out will probably be more expedient and at least save you from swapping cables all the time. A random thought, in that case: I'd put the blind-scanning Pansat closer to the LNB and loop out to the Ultra...

 

[skewed]

I have explained this so many times, but .....sigh.... LOL! I'll gladly do it again to get everyone aware on just how crappy the ultra is at scanning. Every now and again I delete all of my channels and start over, this keeps my channel list fresh and plus it gives me something to do for the next few evenings trying to bring it back up to par. With the ultra I can scan for channels that I know are there and it will not pull them in such as the pbs stations on 125. But I can go to the tp list and put in the tp/ symbol and fec and blind scan again and bam there they are. White springs is another example, if you use the eco 129 setting and change the lnb freq and all other data and scan it will not find white springs, you MUST enter in the transponder info. It does this with several channels and others it just plain misses. The pansat 2500 on the other hand does not need tp info at all. When you do a blind scan it first "collects" the transponders that are active from the sat then it scans them for channels. And my experience with it is that it is dead on. Slow, remote sucks, motor movements are not as precise and the tuner is not as sensitive but it does let you know whats there.

 

[Lak7]

What do you have the Blind Scan MHz "Steps" set to?

 

[skewed]

I forgot which one it is but it is the lowest.

 

[Lak7]

What you need is a Traxis 3500.
Which I happen to have one for sale....
http://www.satelliteguys.us/satelliteguys-classifieds/169689-sale-traxis-3500-a.html