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    Convert Legacy Home Run Setup

    My father has a legacy DirecTV switch setup like this.

    1 HR-21 with two tuners
    1 R-22 with two tuners (Originally SD but now HD)

    A dish with 4 cables running into a un powered Zinwell 6x8 switch in the crawl space. There are 4 cables run from the switch to the two receivers. This was done pretty nicely with receptacle plates in the walls instead of just wires through the floor.

    He wants a HR-34 which requires a conversion to SWM. The issue is I don't want to disturb the connections to the wall plates but there is no power in the crawl space.

    What do others think the best way to handle this would be?
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    No problem. Just replace the 6x8 with a SWM. The SWM8 power supply can be located at any receiver. Just remember that if you want an HR34 and the HR21 and an R22, that's 9 tuners, so you'd need a SWM16.

    Once you have the SWM in place, you'll disconnect one of the lines to each DVR and you'll remove the B-band converters on the HR21/R22.

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    • #3
      Originally posted by WK-Jeff View Post
      No problem. Just replace the 6x8 with a SWM. The SWM8 power supply can be located at any receiver. Just remember that if you want an HR34 and the HR21 and an R22, that's 9 tuners, so you'd need a SWM16.

      Once you have the SWM in place, you'll disconnect one of the lines to each DVR and you'll remove the B-band converters on the HR21/R22.
      They will be getting rid of the R22.

      Does not the power inserted need to be wired before the 1x4 splitter? I need the 1x4 splitter and the SWM-8 to be in the crawl space as all 4 cables to the receivers terminate there.

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      • #4
        No, the power inserter can be after the splitter so long as it is connected to the red power-passing port on the splitter.

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        • #5
          Originally posted by WK-Jeff View Post
          No, the power inserter can be after the splitter so long as it is connected to the red power-passing port on the splitter.
          Cool, that sounds easy enough to do. Now I just have to ID which cable I will connect the power inserter.

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          • #6
            That's definitely important!
            Been here a long time . . .

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