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<blockquote data-quote="2old4this" data-source="post: 6074" data-attributes="member: 174998">The 6 inputs you refer to on most motors are 5 matching the max 5 wires on the motor/actuator itself, and one additional for polarisor skew. Some receivers have an additional facility for ferrite polarisors - they are presumably the additional 2 connections you mention. They can not be combined as far as I know.Cable is cheap enough. My advice is buy the extra (so you can run two full lengths of 4 core = the max 8 needed) - I've made the mistake myself in the past of trying to save cable, only to find later when I changed to a different setup that I now had too few cables and had to lay more - several hours work in my case...If you intend to run a digibox, you MUST have a universal LNB (ie one which accepts the usual 22khz &amp; 13/18v switching signals for H/V polarisation and band selection). Our friendly monopolist Murdoch is hell-bent on keeping customers locked into a dumbed-down digibox - so he's hardly likely ever to incorporate a separate polarotor/ferrite control...Many second-hand digiboxes and all new ones are sold/installed with a dish + universal LNB. Your best bet is to have two separate systems. That's what I have -&nbsp; a normal steerable dish/etc for most stuff and a separate minisdish/digibox just for the UK-stuff. Then you can also independently watch and tape channels from two different sats...2old</blockquote>

[QUOTE="2old4this, post: 6074, member: 174998"] The 6 inputs you refer to on most motors are 5 matching the max 5 wires on the motor/actuator itself, and one additional for polarisor skew. Some receivers have an additional facility for ferrite polarisors - they are presumably the additional 2 connections you mention. They can not be combined as far as I know. Cable is cheap enough. My advice is buy the extra (so you can run two full lengths of 4 core = the max 8 needed) - I've made the mistake myself in the past of trying to save cable, only to find later when I changed to a different setup that I now had too few cables and had to lay more - several hours work in my case... If you intend to run a digibox, you MUST have a universal LNB (ie one which accepts the usual 22khz & 13/18v switching signals for H/V polarisation and band selection). Our friendly monopolist Murdoch is hell-bent on keeping customers locked into a dumbed-down digibox - so he's hardly likely ever to incorporate a separate polarotor/ferrite control... Many second-hand digiboxes and all new ones are sold/installed with a dish + universal LNB. Your best bet is to have two separate systems. That's what I have - a normal steerable dish/etc for most stuff and a separate minisdish/digibox just for the UK-stuff. Then you can also independently watch and tape channels from two different sats... 2old [/QUOTE]

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