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Why don't installers like octoLNBs?
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<blockquote data-quote="Channel Hopper" data-source="post: 822298" data-attributes="member: 175144"><p>My experiences have been slightly different (though I have not offered multiswitching as an alternative). The build quality of the plastic clamp on the Zone 1 / 2 dishes is such that the Octo LNB - and the earlier quads - weight pulls the feedhorn into a position that is just outside the designed focal point. Raising the elevation is only a partial solution but the performance is still not as a blueprint installation.</p><p></p><p>My solution as below is to fit a non Zone 1/2 dish, but one of the independant manufacturers, and round here would go for an 80cm dish to offset the mismatch of the eliptical feed to the alternative dish.</p><p></p><p>I would also suspect a heavy bird sitting on the front end of the dish in cold weather can break the clamp when a heavier LNB is used.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Channel Hopper, post: 822298, member: 175144"] My experiences have been slightly different (though I have not offered multiswitching as an alternative). The build quality of the plastic clamp on the Zone 1 / 2 dishes is such that the Octo LNB - and the earlier quads - weight pulls the feedhorn into a position that is just outside the designed focal point. Raising the elevation is only a partial solution but the performance is still not as a blueprint installation. My solution as below is to fit a non Zone 1/2 dish, but one of the independant manufacturers, and round here would go for an 80cm dish to offset the mismatch of the eliptical feed to the alternative dish. I would also suspect a heavy bird sitting on the front end of the dish in cold weather can break the clamp when a heavier LNB is used. [/QUOTE]
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