At the moment, I have a cable coming down from my satellite that goes into a 3 way splitter in the basement.  The splitter has one powerpass, the powerpass is currently going into my server which has 2 nova-s plus cards.
the second output goes to the second card and the 3rd goes to a sat receiever elsewhere in the house.

The problem is, the nova-s cards seem to go into standby mode when im not using mediaportal somewhere in the house and that means that the lnb doesn't get power so if i want to watch on the satt receiever i get nothing....

So... any solutions? What kind of power is actually output to the LNB, as I am thinking the best solution is just to connect a permanent power supply to it so I don't have these issues and are there any I can buy that have f connectors on them ready to plugin? (looked on trademe but couldnt find such a beast unless you can use the masthead type ones but im not sure on what voltages are used etc here)

My other question is.....

i have a 80cm dish, considering it is going through a 3way splitter what kind of quality/reception strength should i be expecting to see in the receiver?
the receiever is just an el cheapo DSS with pvr... but the signal quality seems quite low only a few bars ....
It was breaking up a lot yesterday with those lovely thunderstorms we had in auckland....not sure if that is to be expected in that kind of weather or not with a 80cm dish..... or if i need to look at checking its alignment..