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[Satchul]

I live in a heavily wooded area.
Only opening to the sats is 133 feet from my house.
I purchased a Twinhan DVB-S PCI Card, and now find out my cable length is too long for PCI cards to function properly.
Reading tells me a powered diseqc switch will fix this.
Can someone comment on this and or steer me to an info page.??

Thanks

[wejones]

Originally Posted by Satchul

I live in a heavily wooded area.
Only opening to the sats is 133 feet from my house.
I purchased a Twinhan DVB-S PCI Card, and now find out my cable length is too long for PCI cards to function properly.
Reading tells me a powered diseqc switch will fix this.
Can someone comment on this and or steer me to an info page.??

Thanks

I run well over 200' to my Twinhan card. There shouldn't be a problem. Also, I see no reason why a diseqC switch would fix the situation, if anything I would think it would make it worse, because the diseqC switches reduce the voltage to the lnbf slightly.

The only problem I have had with the Twinhan cards is that at first mine wouldn't switch diseqC switches, however this was caused by insufficient power supply in my computer. When that power supply burned out, and I replaced it with the proper power supply, my problems with the switch went away.

[Satchul]

Thats an encouraging answer. However!
I, and quite a few others have posted numerous signal losses, and we are all running in the neighborhood of 150 feet plus.
I did read one post where it said to go the powered switch route, and that fixed his problem.
Thanks for your reply, now I have a dilemna. lol

[wejones]

Originally Posted by Satchul

Thats an encouraging answer. However!
I, and quite a few others have posted numerous signal losses, and we are all running in the neighborhood of 150 feet plus.
I did read one post where it said to go the powered switch route, and that fixed his problem.
Thanks for your reply, now I have a dilemna. lol

Do you have a link for this "powered diseqC switch"? I just assumed that you meant a regular diseqC switch, all of which require power, so the term "powered" seemed appropriate. But maybe you're talking about another type of switch that I'm not familiar with, ie one with it's own external power inserter, or perhaps a power inserter that can switch between 13V and 18V. Putting a diseqC switch into a system with only a single LNBF just doesn't make sense.

But short of that, I still think that the problem is not with the Twinhan, but instead with the voltage put out by the computer. I think the Twinhan has some sort of DC voltage doubler, and if the computer doesn't put out enough voltage, that the doubler won't work. Also, if the computer's power supply is deficient, it gives off a lot of noise in the 22khz range, which interferes with diseqc switches.

But anyway, I"m interested in just what kind of switch is being referred to here?