joddle
Specialist Contributor
- Joined
- Jan 12, 2007
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- Age
- 73
- My Satellite Setup
- 2x Pace 2600 C1 (in a box just in case) , 3 x Humax HD Foxstat (2 of which in store as spares) . 3x Manhatten Plaza - Pasat 2.4 PF dish mounted on flat roof with Invacom C120 quad LNB .
- My Location
- Massanassa, Valencia, Spain
Agg - and just before Christmas - sitting watching Freesat on my little Manhatten HD then all of a sudden it stops - no apparent reason but no output - box lights up OK and seems to respond to the remote but simply nothing coming out at all. Never mind, I have an old Humax Freesat HD at hand so plug it in and all seems to be up and running again - but a few days later that one to starts to have problems - first bad breakup then total no signal - but after a few seconds then comes up the message "LNB short".
I unplug the feed and check - no short there - but then think perhaps the in line adjustable attenuator is shorting - and that indeed was the problem. Attenuator now in the bin.
The Manhatten does not do anything but the Humax wants to do something but cannot - it simply can't find a sat signal so I presume the LNB short has done damage to the LNB power feed but before I toss the box in the bin thought I would ask here if this is a reparable thing or is it indeed a dead duck.
Luckily I still have 2 of my trusty old Pace 2600 boxes so we won't be without UK TV over Christmas and they don't need the attenuator anyway. Just a shame the Manhatten did not exhibit an LNB short message as that would have prompted me to be more careful before connecting up the Humax!
I unplug the feed and check - no short there - but then think perhaps the in line adjustable attenuator is shorting - and that indeed was the problem. Attenuator now in the bin.
The Manhatten does not do anything but the Humax wants to do something but cannot - it simply can't find a sat signal so I presume the LNB short has done damage to the LNB power feed but before I toss the box in the bin thought I would ask here if this is a reparable thing or is it indeed a dead duck.
Luckily I still have 2 of my trusty old Pace 2600 boxes so we won't be without UK TV over Christmas and they don't need the attenuator anyway. Just a shame the Manhatten did not exhibit an LNB short message as that would have prompted me to be more careful before connecting up the Humax!