RE: [OT] How to fit a digital mini dish??

[Robert Chasmer <robert.chasmer@xxxxxxx>]

Quinten Uijldert [mailto:yahoogroups@xxxxxxx] wrote:
> Robert Chasmer wrote:
> > Recently my Digibox has started to play up.  It says its
not
> > recieving a sat signal.  If I go to the signal strength
page, the
> > signal strength varies up and down, with the signal quality at
zero.
> 
> You could have water inside the CT125.  This seems to be the
most
> common problem amongst satellite installations.  Did you put
a
> (weather) seal around the F-connector at the LNB end?

I did have some of that self amalgamting rubber stuff and wrapped that
around the F-connector.  I think it was sealed but I guess I'll have
to
check that.  I also made sure that I left a drip loop, the cable comes
down
the wall from the loft through a gap in the cladding. If any water has
got
in the cable it will only be in the first meter or so


> LNB's do not fail just like that (mine has got a broken plastic
cap
> with a plastic bag around it to seal it again) and has been working
> flawless for the last 3 years.

The digital dish was there from the previous owners, and a I said all
I've
done since is change the cableing and watch the owners trees go.  The
thing
I thought was odd is that the box is ok if you power it down for a few
minutes, but dies again a short while after.

I guess something could be charging up and then failing.  Are you
saying
that water in the cable or LNB could be causing this sort of effect?


When I get a chance I think I'll move the sat box into the garage and run
a
temporary cable, if that is ok for more than ten minutes then I'll be
pretty
sure its the cable.

Thanks


Rob

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