New LNB

[dardruba]

I've got
85cm dish with 3 twin Lnb's 13/19/28E.
The 3 inners to a 4x1 diseqc and the cable thru the wall to DVBDream on the PC.
The 3 outers to a 4x1 diseqc and that cable round the house to LNB1IN in the
Foxat-HDR in the back room downstairs, with a loop to LNB2IN.
I view either upstairs or downstairs.

I want
another cable direct to LNB2IN to make better use of the Humax capabilities and
I've bought a quad lnb, to replace the twin lnb on 28E, for an installer to fit.

I'd expected to keep the inner and outer setup unchanged and use a new cable run
direct from the LNB to the Humax for Freesat on 28E only as this gets the most usage.

Will this method be efficient and workable and should the new direct cable
or the diseqc cable go to LNB1IN?

 

[dardruba]

Correction. I watch more Freesat but tend to record more Non Freesat.
Does that complicate matters?

 

[rolfw]

Why not replace the twins for quads and add another DiSEqC switch.

 

[dardruba]

Still thinking about this. It sounds very practical. It would give me two diseqc cables, to the PC and the small TV, and two diseqc cables round the house to the Humax.
I was worried about the extra weight on the T arm, there is 0.6grams difference between my Twin LNB and the Quad LNB, 3 times that shouldn't be a problem.
But that would involve 12 short cable lengths between the 3 LNB's and the
4 diseqc boxes and that might be a weight problem
Two new Quad LNB's and new runs of twin cabling are going to put the cost up,
and these are not items I can install and connect myself.