Humax Foxsat not booting

[Huevos]

Plug in the Humax Foxsat and the green rectangle starts looping on the front display. No boot screen shows via the HDMI or the SCART connection. This continues for about 2 hours (a guess) and then eventually it boots. Once booted it seems to work flawlessly.

Any ideas apart from the dustbin?

 

[Analoguesat]

Have a look at the psu capacitors.

 

[Lazarus]

Yep. Classic fault with Foxsat.

Kits available, H, although no doubt you can source the bits yourself.

http://shop.mikecartwright.net/humax-foxsat-repair-kit/

Less than €10 for a new lease of life.

 

[Huevos]

I sold the guy a Goodmans Freesat SD and he gave me this for scrap. Anyway I've got the PSU board out and those 2 capacitors are bulging a bit.

 

[Lazarus]

Sorry to say, but it harms Humax's reputation to penny-pinch the way they did with some batches of the Foxsat. Grundig, yes - but Humax?

Mine is an early one and still going strong (Anything that can be crossed is crossed!)

 

[Tony1A]

Typical Humax Foxsat problem. Crappy Chinese capacitors on the power supply board!

 

[Captain Jack]

This problem isn't limited to Foxsats. Other Humax models suffer the same fate

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[Huevos]

I dropped some new ones in there and it works fine now.

 

[Lazarus]

Beats me why Manufacturers skimp on quality Capacitors >> This is like Grundighog Day!

 

[workshoppete]

I have read that this problem is in part due to industrial espionage.

_http://www.badcaps.net/pages.php?vid=4
_http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

The truth is out there