After heavy rain yesterday and +8 temperature, then dropping to -16 with wind chiil of -20 something over night it seems my chieta heavy duty switch is frozen..No signal on any of my KU sats..The motor and dish is moving fine..I have the switch in a plastic case, so I thought it would be fine..I can only guess it got some water in there and froze up.
Still to cold to check it out, I'll bring it in tomorrow and see if it thaws, hopefully I don't need a new switch.
Thread: Frozen DiSEqC Switch
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Frozen DiSEqC Switch – 01-18-2012,09:46 AM
click click b00m
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01-18-2012,10:20 AM
When it thaws make sure that it is good and dry before you try it.
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01-18-2012,06:21 PM
Came home from work and it seems to be working half assed..if I change to DiSEqC then move the dish a bit then back to USALS the signal will come in.. I think it might be okay when I bring it indoors for a while tomorrow..
click click b00m
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01-21-2012,12:58 PM
Well, had to order a new switch, this one bit the dust..had a few old ones in the basement but I guess that's why I put them there, only a port working on both.. and switching time is terrible on those old cheap 4x1 switches..
click click b00m
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01-22-2012,11:04 PM
Cheita make a decent switch, however there were many reports of counterfeit Cheita switches out in the marketplace and you could tell the bogus ones as they did not have a serial # on them. I have always been partial to EMP Centauri switches as they have not failed me yet.
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01-23-2012,01:58 PM
click click b00m
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01-28-2012,08:18 AM
Got my KU back up and running..once the new switch went on I found that the dish had also got moved out of wack in the storm, so had to adjust the dish as well..back on the arc now and good to go..
click click b00m
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03-04-2012,06:39 PM
I've got several boxes of old switches....diseqc.22khz multi's,and some others.I'll ship anything you need.
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03-05-2012,07:50 PM
Yes...1...but I have to see if it's still there.I maintain a sat set up for an older guy who thinks one button(and wishful thinking) should do everything.I'll look tomorrow for you.