FBC Tuner requirements

[Tigerdyr2]

Hi.

I've received my Solo 4K and i'm wondering, what the requirements are to utilitize the FBC tuners. I've been searching the net a lot, and can't find anything regarding this.

I expect my LNB's, disecq ect. to support (Full Band Capture).

Have any of you any information regarding this ?

Thanks in advance.

[DaMacFunkin]

They self configure based on your system, I have WF100 cabling and a universal lnb, but to truly get the fbc across the 2 tuners you need a certain lnb and a type of cable, the name escapes me at the moment, arrgghh.

[Tigerdyr2]

Current. my Solo4k is equipped with 2 "onboard" FBC tuners, and an add-on Dual DVB-S2 module. 2 internal and one in the module. All 3 are connected to 2 quad LNB with disecq in between. I assume the module works as normal. I hope someone can point me in the correct path. In the image i have 10 tuners avavible as i recall. 4 pr FBC (1 physical and 3 virtual) and 2 physical in the module.

[DaMacFunkin]

Yes they are all available by default, but like I said the system self configures to use the tuners, as, when and if possible... The best way to test is to keep recording programs from different transponders and see how many you can get going at the same time, the discussion I saw was on VTi forum, they had the right type of cabling and lnb, but I can't translate German to english on the fly with my phone so I can't find it till I get home.
Ps I have 12 tuners showing in mine with the usb ones as well.

[Tigerdyr2]

I'll test later on. And post my findings

[Tigerdyr2]

I tried by using my current setup. I managed to tune 7 channels on the 2 built in tuners, but i was not able to freely select channels. It seems linke you should unicable / satCR for obtaining 4 channels of free choice, but only if they are on the same satellite.

[Trial]

Hi,
with normal configuration you can tune 8 transponder from 2 bands with unicable 8 transponder from any band from max 2 sat and I think more with jess.

ciao

[Huevos]

Jess won't let you tune more transponders. The box only has 9 demuxes. The only advantage of jess is it will allow 32 IF channels.32 = 8 x 4, which means with a jess LNB you can run four Solo4k receivers at once through one cable.

[Trial]

Hi Huevos,
with more I meant more than 2 Sat as unicable allows. With jess up to 64 Sat can be used.

ciao

[2stein]

i also came to the conclusion that you need uni-cable lnb to fully exploit the fbc tuners.
however, i always thought that uni-cable was only a workaround for installations with one cable. with less signal quality due higher frequencies on the coax cable. isn't that true anymore?

[Trial]

Hi,
why higher frequencies? I know this "problem" only from stacker/destacker as it goes up to around 3GHz.

ciao

[2stein]

well if e.g. 4 boxes are supported concurrently over one cable the frequency ranges are stacked... they start at 1 ghz and go up to 2 ghz..

SCR port
CH1 1210MHz
CH2 1420MHz
CH3 1680MHz
CH4 2040MHz

[Trial]

Hi,
yes but this is normal. Do you think that normal sat is below 1GHz? 1st GHz is reserved for terrestrial/cable.

ciao

[Huevos]

Hi Huevos,
with more I meant more than 2 Sat as unicable allows. With jess up to 64 Sat can be used.

Theoretical... but... I doubt there is any hardware. Is there any JESS switch available that will go above 4 satellites?

And a basic switch just to get 4 satellites is in the 800€ range.

[Huevos]

well if e.g. 4 boxes are supported concurrently over one cable the frequency ranges are stacked... they start at 1 ghz and go up to 2 ghz..

SCR port
CH1 1210MHz
CH2 1420MHz
CH3 1680MHz
CH4 2040MHz

As Trial says that is the same range used by a Universal LNB (950 - 2150 MHz).