Ok, so I have this satellite TV set up to Astra (I think). I haven't touched anything it worked fine until about 10pm last night and then it died. Since then I get no signal.
I am completely useless with this thing and the one person who knows a) the set up and b) how to fix it is gone... So, at the risk of getting a whole bunch of google it or mick take responses, I ask you guys kindly to help me. This may require you asking me more questions and explaining wtf I'm looking at or looking for. Should this result in some poor soul coming round and actually having to fix it for me I will of course buy them a beer and a pizza.
My younger brother used to be a prodigious dribbler (not in the basketball way) and we regularly had to put our t.v controls (and once my calculator) into the hot-press to dry them out after he had had a bit of a chew on them.
Try that? If you have a hot-press.
C
p.s: I am also horrendous at technical things, I went to the school of turn it on, then off again till it works. If this doesn't work, pull out all cables without turning it off (at risk of electrocution) then plug them all back in again. When it comes to my laptop, to fix it, I usually unplug it and take out the battery. People despair of me, really.
Disclaimer: I'm not familiar with water in an LNB.
1. Don't adjust or move the dish at all
2. If the LNB doesn't dry itself remove it, check the contact(s), dry them carefully, see if there is water under the cover. Then personally I'd just leave it indoors to dry out.
Do any of your neighbours have a receiver tuned to Astra2 you could switch with yours to eliminate that as the cause?
Ok So, I took that LNB thingy apart and saw that the inside of it (I assume the important part) has been sealed with an extra dose of hot glue. I now vaguely recall Mark doing this a while back due to a similar problem... So can we say that water in the LNB is not the problem?
If water gets into the cable, it can cause problems (normally corrosion over a long period but if enough water it could cause a short). That's why I apply silicon grease, then seal with self amalgamating tape.
this is a bi**h - the problem is that there's no way of knowing whether the LNB is fried, the cables are wet, the decoder got fried due to some power surge during the thunder-storm or whether the antenna was slightly moved by wind or something hitting it during the storm.
Do you have a neighbor that also has a sat system running? I'd first hook up your receiver to someone else's system so you can be sure it's not the box.
I find it rather unlikely that the cable went from 100% to 0% during a thunderstorm, even if some water had gotten into it. Then I'd buy a sat-finder, like this one: http://www.satonline.ch/shop/detail_...igergeraet.php
Hook it up between the receiver and antenna and check if you get a signal when you slightly bend the antenna (without loosening the screws/nuts so that it doesn't get misaligned) in other directions.
Lynn, you have a quad LNB, there are 4 connectors at the back of the LNB. I think you only have one cable connected to it though (one cable running from the dish, under the door and into the receiver).
This is probably going to sound dumb, but I had exactly the same problem last night so I turned the box off at the wall, left it for a bit (a bit being about 5 minutes), then turned it back on. It had a bit of a think then scanned for channels and everything was back to normal.
I would assume you've already done this, but if not it would be worth a go before doing anything more laborious.