Ok, so I was away from my place for some time and got back and had to realign the dish which is mounted on a post in the yard. I have a 1000.2 EA and I had a strong signal on both 61.5 and 72. And I had locals on my package. I done away with the locals and bought a OTA antenna. Had strong signals and figured I'd save me some money. I am using those combiners that combine the sat and OTA signals so I have one out at my dish where I also have my little antenna and I have the single cable coming into my tiny house where I split them again and run them where they need to be on the VIP722. I had my OTA channels fine. Well, my satellite started dropping out the other night with partial signal and complete signal losses. I went out and it was barely cloudy and Im pretty sure no trees are the problem cause I never had fluctuating signal there even with strong winds. So eventually it went out and stayed out. Im pretty sure its not the alignment. Reason is, I started having issues with the red x's in the system info and I did a check switch and now its not detecting the LNB. So it just starts that running test # of 38 crap.. I know its only supposed to do a couple quick tests if I remember correctly when its working right. Installation summary doesn't show my lnb/switch at all. I also have a Western Arch LNB so I figured that would rule out a bad LNB if it didn't detect it, then that would point to the wiring.. So it didn't detect the WA LNB but oddly my OTA signals are coming in fine and are watchable on the OTA tuner on the receiver.
I checked the wiring with a multimeter to check for open circuit and issues where there was continuity between the center wire and outer and didn't find a problem with the cable but when I unhooked my OTA antenna, I found continuity between the inner wire and outer I thought I found my problem. I thought it may have been causing enough problems that would effect my satellite signal. So I left it unhooked and tried again, still not detecting the LNB.
So my question is, can use a multimeter to check for voltage at the dish by putting a wire that would normally go to the LNB and probing them. Is it still 19v or what should I look for? Im thinking since both LNBs werent detected that there is no power there or its the wiring.
Its possible this receiver is done for. The Hard drive is toast on the DVR and I contacted about a replacement but they want to do a new install and all that and I'd rather do my own install since I have a tiny house. They want to complicate it up for me..lol
I checked the wiring with a multimeter to check for open circuit and issues where there was continuity between the center wire and outer and didn't find a problem with the cable but when I unhooked my OTA antenna, I found continuity between the inner wire and outer I thought I found my problem. I thought it may have been causing enough problems that would effect my satellite signal. So I left it unhooked and tried again, still not detecting the LNB.
So my question is, can use a multimeter to check for voltage at the dish by putting a wire that would normally go to the LNB and probing them. Is it still 19v or what should I look for? Im thinking since both LNBs werent detected that there is no power there or its the wiring.
Its possible this receiver is done for. The Hard drive is toast on the DVR and I contacted about a replacement but they want to do a new install and all that and I'd rather do my own install since I have a tiny house. They want to complicate it up for me..lol
