install question regarding multswitch

You need [must have] four in, or you won't get all the HD channels.

so at that point I may as well not use the multiswitch just run the cable back to the dish

btbeam said:

so at that point I may as well not use the multiswitch just run the cable back to the dish

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Yup

I have not yet taken the dish lnb apart to connect wires is there anything I need to know about that? Thanks

btbeam said:

I have not yet taken the dish lnb apart to connect wires is there anything I need to know about that? Thanks

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Very straight forward. Just be careful not to change the position of the dish itself. You'll probably have to get some slack in the existing coax (undo the drip loops for example). Take two screws & nuts out, gently slide the LNB out of the arm it is mounted to. Push your two new coax up through the arm, connect to LNB then push the LNB bck into the arm and reinstall the screws & nuts. Route your new coax along with the old, making drip loops and putting in ground block before it enters the structure. Then route to the new location. If you route the new coax to the same ground block location as the old coax, then all 4 lines from the dish will be at the same place and if you ever grow beyond two DVRs, you can put the multiswitch at that location and grow from there.

Can I put the multi switch outside or do I need to keep it out of the weather.

Thought we had determined you did not need a multiswitch, you needed to run additional coax from the LNB anyway, so you were going straight to the receiver.

However, yes the multiswitch can go outside, but you need to use rubber boots on the connectors and should try and shield it from direct bad weather.

Yes we did determine that but at that point I had already ordered the multiswitch so I decided to run the four wires back to the dish and just install the multiswitch this way I can add on easier in the future if the need should come up. Rather than return it just to reorder a year from now. So basically I will have four in and four out but can expand later.

"carl6" said:

Thought we had determined you did not need a multiswitch, you needed to run additional coax from the LNB anyway, so you were going straight to the receiver.

However, yes the multiswitch can go outside, but you need to use rubber boots on the connectors and should try and shield it from direct bad weather.

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Nice bike by the way I also ride

btbeam said:

Nice bike by the way I also ride

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Thanks. I've hit 48 states and 9 provinces so far.
Keep the rubber side down.