New Dual Tuner OTA Adapter

It came with that short extension cable. I ordered a 6 footer. Yesterday when I disconnected the USB tuner I couldnt even touch the R6 cable connector it was so hot.
It's transferring that much heat through the short (6" ?) USB cable ? If so, that's really bad.
 
I've had to revert back to my single tuner dongle to get stable OTA channels, the dual tuner dongle was all over the place id scan and get 6-9-12-24-27 channels. I switched and my single tuner gets 27 channels through numerous scans.
 
I've had to revert back to my single tuner dongle to get stable OTA channels, the dual tuner dongle was all the place id scan and get 6-9-12-24-27 channels. I switched and my single tuner gets 27 channels through numerous scans.

Sadly, I predicted this when I learned that Hauppauge was the manufacturer. Their newer dongles are just plain crap, in my experience. Overpriced, overheating junk.
 
Sadly, I predicted this when I learned that Hauppauge was the manufacturer. Their newer dongles are just plain crap, in my experience. Overpriced, overheating junk.

Most likely Dish saved $2 per each module sold. And they don't work well. The new adapters are now made in Malaysia, a place that is not known for quality high tech production, to say the least.
 
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Products have manufacturing specs that must be met and where they're made has to bearing on this. China can make high-quality stuff, as can India, as can wherever. If the company that's putting their name on the product has low-quality standards or specs, blame them, not the builder.
 
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Products have manufacturing specs that must be met and where they're made has to bearing on this. China can make high-quality stuff, as can India, as can wherever. If the company that's putting their name on the product has low-quality standards or specs, blame them, not the builder.

I blame Dish for choosing to use Hauppauge as their vendor when the old tuner from Pace worked fine. I'm sure it boils down to a cost savings for Dish, as Mitch mentioned.
 
I am gonna try using a USB extension cable to get the tuner out side of my media cabinet. I will report if that helped at all. Otherwise I am going back to the single tuner.
Well my 6 foot USB extension cable came and I now have my dual tuner outside of my open face cabinet and have not been having any issue of the total signal loss that I was experiencing when it was sitting just behind my hopper 3 in the cabinet. The tuner is warm yet but I am hoping it will now get more air movement for cooling. Fingers crossed!
 
I actually place my dual tuner to the left of the rear of the Hopper 3 for similar reasons. I didn't add any extra USB, I simply placed it in the open. When I had it directly behind the Hopper, it would not see any channels. It actually sits behind my center channel speaker so you can't see it.
 
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Well my 6 foot USB extension cable came and I now have my dual tuner outside of my open face cabinet and have not been having any issue of the total signal loss that I was experiencing when it was sitting just behind my hopper 3 in the cabinet. The tuner is warm yet but I am hoping it will now get more air movement for cooling. Fingers crossed!
Still working good !
 
Products have manufacturing specs that must be met and where they're made has to bearing on this. China can make high-quality stuff, as can India, as can wherever. If the company that's putting their name on the product has low-quality standards or specs, blame them, not the builder.

Exactly, it's all about quality control. Just like those british high end audio manufacturers have engineering done in england while the thing is made in China but the quality control is done in england results in a high-end product. Almost all of the speaker drivers are made in China yet they are used in the high end brands without issues.
 
I blame Dish for choosing to use Hauppauge as their vendor when the old tuner from Pace worked fine. I'm sure it boils down to a cost savings for Dish, as Mitch mentioned.

Are we talking about Pace, the company that makes modems for DSL? If so, Pace is owned by Arris who basically is the supplier to the Cable companies with the Arris Cablemodems and also makes other cable tv gear so that may be the reason.
 
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