Thread: Possible?Two Fortec Lifetime Receivers and 1dish + 1 LNB
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Old 03-12-2004, 01:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Sadoun
I would also recommend you use DC block (usually found at Radio Schak) on each output of the switch. That way voltage will pass in one direction (towards the LNBF) and not towards the other receiver.
Yup; I managed to fry an SW44 multiswitch last week by using defective splitters - even though one leg was supposedly DC blocked. I had two SW44s running in tandem for 8 receivers and the cheapo splitters leaked DC and took out one of the switches - and those DishNet SW44s are not cheap !!!

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