Mystery -- First equipment breakdown

[mike123abc]

Well, after 6 years I had my first equipment breakdown. It is very odd, I am not quite sure how it happened. One port on my DPP44 went out, and 2 LNBs went out too (they only receive odd TPs).

I went out and worked on it all day. I tried new cables, with a receiver outside hooked up directly to the LNB. My 119 LNB was working fine, but was hooked up to port one of the DPP44, moving to port 2 causes it to show up. Any satellite I hooked up to port 1 would not work. The two LNBs that I had on 110 and 61.5 were locked on odd TPs only. I moved the cable to the other port on the LNBs and tried different cables with the reciever outside directly connected and still only got odd TPs. Signal strengh was over 110 on the odd.

I have separate satellite dishes for all the LNBs. I just wonder what happened that knocked out the even side of 2 LNBs on different dishes (on ports 2&3 of the DPP44), knocked out port 1 of the DPP44, and left port 4 & satellite 129 working like nothing happened. We did have a brief rain shower yesterday(early afternoon), but then it dried up fast. There was no lightning. Everything worked last night, recordings went past midnight, nothing lost. I noticed it not working this morning around noon. The DPP44 power inserter and the 622s are all on UPSes.

Well the 1.99 warrantee is working Dish sending me out 2 new LNBs and a new DPP44. At least I am limping along with 119, 110 odd, and 129, so have locals, AT120 and some of 110.

I wonder if it was the sudden drop from 105 to 75 with the rain then going back to 105 again (it has been 100-105ish here for 2 months, this was first rain in about 2 months).

 

[wayne231]

I had a very odd occurance not to long ago that was resolved by unplugging the dpp44 power supply's for about thirty seconds for them to re-set then plugging them back in. Everything worked fine afterwards.

 

[Stargazer]

I have had to do the same thing wayne231 but I have also noticed that there would be a failure in the future after that. That may be an early sign of failure in the switch.

 

[mike123abc]

Yeah I tried the power off on the DPP44 first. That did not work, and after a few switch tests with different receivers plugged in, I finally hauled the 301 out to the dish farm and started testing the LNBs directly.

Interesting note the 622 cannot record anything without access to the 9 day guide. You can watch all the shows, you can skip back/forward in the current show buffer, but you cannot record anything. The guide only goes out a few hours (i.e. using the very short guide). You cannot even record the current program you are viewing even though there is guilde data for it. You also cannot set up a manual timer.

Essentially the 622 recording becomes disabled. (9 day guide is on an even TP on 110). Dish is fedexing out 2 new LNBs and a new DPP44. They first wanted to send a tech out, but scratched that idea when the next appointment time would be the 10! I would hate to be a sub that did not know how to change out equipment, having to be disabled for 2.5 weeks is crazy.

 

[mike123abc]

Well now I know it is something wrong with the switch. My 119 LNB just lost the even TPs too... It was working after the 110/61.5 satellites lost their evens. I had to move the 119 to port 2 of the switch since port one stopped working altogether. After a day on port 2 now the 119 LNB has gone bad too. Ports 1 of the switch is out all together, port 2/3 seem to burn out the even side of the LNBs attached to them... Needless to say I shut the whole thing down and am going to wait for the DPP44 to get here from Dish.