Another reliability tip:
Get a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply, aka "Battery Backup") for your satellite receivers.
These have two big advantages:
- Prevents loss of recordings when the Power Company decides to turn off everyone's power for 10 seconds, in order to switch major equipment. Of course, they sometimes decide to do this during your favorite show.
- And, more relevant to this thread, over the years, the anecdotal evidence in satellite forums is that people experience less hardware failures when their receivers are plugges into a UPS. Undoubtedly, this would be due to the power being filtered, thus leading to the conclusion that some satellite receivers instabilities are caused by power fluctuations.
Note that a small UPS with only a short amount of "backup time" will do just fine for the above, and you can get a good quality brand name UPS for $30 if you choose a smaller one.
Get a UPS (Uninterruptible Power Supply, aka "Battery Backup") for your satellite receivers.
These have two big advantages:
- Prevents loss of recordings when the Power Company decides to turn off everyone's power for 10 seconds, in order to switch major equipment. Of course, they sometimes decide to do this during your favorite show.
- And, more relevant to this thread, over the years, the anecdotal evidence in satellite forums is that people experience less hardware failures when their receivers are plugges into a UPS. Undoubtedly, this would be due to the power being filtered, thus leading to the conclusion that some satellite receivers instabilities are caused by power fluctuations.
Note that a small UPS with only a short amount of "backup time" will do just fine for the above, and you can get a good quality brand name UPS for $30 if you choose a smaller one.
