I had read about it before, and now I got hit. I know, scan in too many transponders and the fortec cannot handle very many and so bad things start to happen. Anyone know the max number of transponders I can have loaded in? I remember reading somewhere the max number of channels is like 4800.
Max number of transponders must be sort of low in comparison (especially a problem when blind scanning too many birds, I guess when I added the circular LNB the number of transponders on blind scan went through the roof!).
I also remember reading somewhere that you could delete all of the transponders but one on each satellite to take care of the problem without losing any channels. However, I found out with my fortec (perhaps that was a different firmware version), if I delete a transponder that I had channels on I also loose the channels
.
So I went through and selectively deleted transponders which did not have channels, and trimmed it down alot. I manually fixed up some of the corruption (satellite names with weird symbols), but I still have weird things happening (timers changing to be a different channel than what I had originally set, the time/date suddenly being off a year).
I did buy a NULL modem cable, got the fortec software (and channel master software), and loaded my computer with the channels/transponders/satellites which I have scanned in on my fortec.
The big question is what will I lose if I do the reset on my fortec? I think I need to because I see these other weird things going on. I am just hoping I am not going to have to scan in all the birds again (and set positions). Of course I suppose some of that may be corrupted as well, so maybe I want that to be reset too?
I guess with the channel list loaded on my computer, if the reset really does wipe everything out I have a copy which I can either manually go through or just load it back on the fortec (or is that just like putting the corruption back on?).
I could find out by trial and error, but I want to go into this with some info up front to know what all I am in for (and with advise from the experts here I can't go wrong) .
Max number of transponders must be sort of low in comparison (especially a problem when blind scanning too many birds, I guess when I added the circular LNB the number of transponders on blind scan went through the roof!).
I also remember reading somewhere that you could delete all of the transponders but one on each satellite to take care of the problem without losing any channels. However, I found out with my fortec (perhaps that was a different firmware version), if I delete a transponder that I had channels on I also loose the channels
.So I went through and selectively deleted transponders which did not have channels, and trimmed it down alot. I manually fixed up some of the corruption (satellite names with weird symbols), but I still have weird things happening (timers changing to be a different channel than what I had originally set, the time/date suddenly being off a year).
I did buy a NULL modem cable, got the fortec software (and channel master software), and loaded my computer with the channels/transponders/satellites which I have scanned in on my fortec.
The big question is what will I lose if I do the reset on my fortec? I think I need to because I see these other weird things going on. I am just hoping I am not going to have to scan in all the birds again (and set positions). Of course I suppose some of that may be corrupted as well, so maybe I want that to be reset too?
I guess with the channel list loaded on my computer, if the reset really does wipe everything out I have a copy which I can either manually go through or just load it back on the fortec (or is that just like putting the corruption back on?).
I could find out by trial and error, but I want to go into this with some info up front to know what all I am in for (and with advise from the experts here I can't go wrong
) .
