SW64 and power inserter.

[TheForce]

I've been doing some house keeping on the dish farm these past few days.

One of the devices I thought I'd remove is the power inserter for the SW64 switch. I've had this in line since the beginning as it was needed with the earlier receivers.

I thought I'd try to remove it to see if the VIP 622 would work and it seems to be just fine.

Is this OK or should I put the inserter back in line #1?

 

[rcdallas]

Put it back in... I wouldn't chance it on a SW64, those power inserters will knock the crap out of you compared to a DPP44.

 

[Jamez74]

Plus, it adds the necessary voltage that the SW64 needs to function correctly

 

[TheForce]

Yep! I discovered that in about an hour of channel surfing. Just started acting strange and then my 622 rebooted. I put it back in and all is working perfectly again. At first I thought it was working fine. Didn't last long.

Thanks for the comments.

 

[Tyralak]

Yep! I discovered that in about an hour of channel surfing. Just started acting strange and then my 622 rebooted. I put it back in and all is working perfectly again. At first I thought it was working fine. Didn't last long.

Thanks for the comments.

I'm just surprised it worked at all after taking the PI out. When they made us use up a bunch of SW64s a year and a half ago, the damn things went straight to the acquiring sat signal screen when you took the PI out.

 

[TheForce]

I checked the voltage difference.

The Power inserter was delivering approx. 20v at the switch and w/o PS the 622 was delivering 13 V at the switch. (unloaded)