Anyone see a difference, SWM

[SatRick]

Between solid copper RG6 and standard? when using either a SWM LNB or module

Have 2 rooms that would be verry difficult to swap out, but they do read out at 75 ohms:D

[davring]

I wouldn't worry about it for short runs within your house, you should be fine.

[veryoldschool]

SWM was made for [intended to be used with] coax that was "in place" [even RG59].
Copper Core RG6 "should be used" between the PI & SWM, as the voltage drop of older coax isn't good. Some of this may be offset with the 29 volt PI, but there are 21 volt PIs, that I wouldn't want to use with less than solid copper core RG6.

[SatRick]

Good to know:D
Luckily I do have solid copper on the 2 main sets where PI will be

Any reason why they don't want the PI to be on powerstrip or Srg-Prtk
Is it because of potential 'turn off" or ?

[litzdog911]

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Any reason why they don't want the PI to be on powerstrip or Srg-Prtk
Is it because of potential 'turn off" or ?

Exactly. In fact, it's best to power the PI using a UPS to ensure that it stays powered even if your house goes dark.

[randyk47]

Mine is plugged into a UPS but we haven't had a power failure or even a power hiccup since I set it up so can't say how well it works. I also have the receiver, one of my HR20's, plugged into the same UPS so at least the one combination will stay up as long as it's not too long of an outage. I'm not big on putting my receivers on UPS, just happens I'd upgraded my computer UPS and had the old one as an extra. Can't quite bring myself to spend the extra dollars just to keep my all sat receivers working while all the other equipment would be down.

[litzdog911]

Mine is plugged into a UPS but we haven't had a power failure or even a power hiccup since I set it up so can't say how well it works. I also have the receiver, one of my HR20's, plugged into the same UPS so at least the one combination will stay up as long as it's not too long of an outage. I'm not big on putting my receivers on UPS, just happens I'd upgraded my computer UPS and had the old one as an extra. Can't quite bring myself to spend the extra dollars just to keep my all sat receivers working while all the other equipment would be down.

It's very nice with DVR's though. If the SWM and DVR are powered with a UPS, the DVR can continue recording even through a total power failure. At least until the UPS dies.

[dave29]

It's very nice with DVR's though. If the SWM and DVR are powered with a UPS, the DVR can continue recording even through a total power failure. At least until the UPS dies.

i am a firm supporter in UPS'. i have every dvr, power inserter, computer, and RPTV plugged into UPS'.

[Grentz]

No problems here with some even decently long runs over RG6 CCS and the SWM.

On the UPS subject, I have my main DVR and PI on a UPS, but my other receiver is not. We maybe get one power outage a year, if that, so it is a bit hard to justify. Our power is also very stable and we never really get brownouts or voltage drops. Now if I lived in some other places with less stable power, I would definitely have more UPS units ;)

[SatRick]

So I take it to be, if there is a power glitch
all the recievers have to reset themselves

Does this include SWM frequency allocation to IRD's?

[Mike Bertelson]

Just to test it out I used a 50' run of RG59.

It worked just fine.

It's very forgiving.

Mike

[LameLefty]

So I take it to be, if there is a power glitch
all the recievers have to reset themselves

Does this include SWM frequency allocation to IRD's?

I don't have any of my 4 SWM-connected boxes or Power Inserter on a UPS. A few weeks after I installed my SWM8, I had a power outage for about 5 minutes - when power returned all boxes and SWM8 rebooted and came up just fine. Apparently the system is smart enough to figure out what to do. ;)