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<blockquote data-quote="Vipersan" data-source="post: 812466" data-attributes="member: 325666">..Well the addition of Neil to the 'farm' brought with it some problems ..not least of which was only moving the diseqc motor and V box required as neccessary..I always use port 2 for Cband (Christina) ..and _never_ pass lnb signals through the Vbox ..thus I needed a way to discriminate between moving Neil only when port 4 disqc 1.1 is selected ....and Christina which uses 2x daisychained Vboxes ..Problem ..The EMP Centauri switch wont pass disec 1.2 when set in diseqc 1.1 mode ...which I need for the various LNBs ..I don't want to move a dish I'm not using ..and power a motor or LNB I'm not using..The Gecen diseqc 1.1 switch doesn't provide such good isolation as the Centauri ...but it does pass diseqc 1.2 even though its a diseqc 1.1 switch..The answer came to me ...Use both switches ..The Gecen to switch motor control ..and the Centauri to switch lnbs....and a nice T splitter to provide a split feed from any receiver wanting to use any dish/lnb combination via the smart priority switch chain I employ..Here is a basic diagram (much simplified) ..obviously only showing 4 ports in use ..The Centauri does appear to pass diseqc 1.3 in 1.1 mode ..so the usals motors don't (so far) need isolation through the Gecen switch..Its made my head hurt ...but so far so good..rgdsVS</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Vipersan, post: 812466, member: 325666"] ..Well the addition of Neil to the 'farm' brought with it some problems ..not least of which was only moving the diseqc motor and V box required as neccessary.. I always use port 2 for Cband (Christina) ..and _never_ pass lnb signals through the Vbox ..thus I needed a way to discriminate between moving Neil only when port 4 disqc 1.1 is selected .. ..and Christina which uses 2x daisychained Vboxes .. Problem .. The EMP Centauri switch wont pass disec 1.2 when set in diseqc 1.1 mode ...which I need for the various LNBs .. I don't want to move a dish I'm not using ..and power a motor or LNB I'm not using.. The Gecen diseqc 1.1 switch doesn't provide such good isolation as the Centauri ...but it does pass diseqc 1.2 even though its a diseqc 1.1 switch.. The answer came to me ... Use both switches .. The Gecen to switch motor control ..and the Centauri to switch lnbs.. ..and a nice T splitter to provide a split feed from any receiver wanting to use any dish/lnb combination via the smart priority switch chain I employ.. Here is a basic diagram (much simplified) ..obviously only showing 4 ports in use .. The Centauri does appear to pass diseqc 1.3 in 1.1 mode ..so the usals motors don't (so far) need isolation through the Gecen switch.. Its made my head hurt ...but so far so good.. rgds VS [/QUOTE]

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