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Asmodeus

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#27747 5-Nov-2008 11:37
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Hi,

I have dvb-s freeview going into my blackgold 6 in1 card using tv pack & vmc. When I put the satellite feed in with no splitter it works fine, however as it has dual sat inputs I need to split it to use both tuners (and a 3rd to sky stb) so I bought a 3 way splitter from DSE.

I split the cable 3 ways and put 2 into the card and one into the stb. The splitter has power passthrough on one of the outputs only if that matters.

I put the power passthrough into one of the dvb-s tuners and put another cable in to the other dvbs tuner and the last cable into the stb. It mostly works but every minute or so I get blocky signal fade similar to when sky gets rain fade. NO matter what way round I swap the cables I cant get it to work properly.

I also get stuff like a working stb reception and a blocky htpc reception but when I turn the htpc off, I lose the signal to the sky stb..... Yell

I am confused as hell (and you probably are too after reading my crappy description) so any suggestions? I assume the splitter is the problem. Is it something to do with this power passthrough or not? I think I saw splitters that pass power through all 3 outputs rather than just one, would that help?

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  #176054 5-Nov-2008 11:49
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hi

I also have a blackgold 6 in 1 tuner, i found that it didn't tune initally with the signal going through a splitter but this was because i hadn't pluged the AUX power in correctly... Also the reason your sky doesn't work when you turn off your HTPC is because of the power pass throught if you plug the 1 powered pass throught into the sky decoder then it will work. I would advise getting a splitter with all ports power pass through

 
 
 
 

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  #176071 5-Nov-2008 12:24
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samsam: hi

I also have a blackgold 6 in 1 tuner, i found that it didn't tune initally with the signal going through a splitter but this was because i hadn't pluged the AUX power in correctly... Also the reason your sky doesn't work when you turn off your HTPC is because of the power pass throught if you plug the 1 powered pass throught into the sky decoder then it will work. I would advise getting a splitter with all ports power pass through


Hi, thanks for your reply. I will try a new splitter as you describe and see if that helps.

What do you mean about the AUX power? do you mean the little internal power connector on the blackgold card?




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  #176166 5-Nov-2008 18:02
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yep by the aux i mean the little one on the card i didn't no how else to describe it

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