When I went to bed that night, it was parked on a C Band ch on 105W that wasn't getting enough signal to display any video, plus it took at least 5 minutes to lock to begin with. In the past this particular signal has always been marginal, but usually played just fine, though sometimes it might tile on occasion. So when I wake up the next morning, and that I turn the tv on, this channel is playing fine again. I then turned the tv off since there wasn't anything playing on that channel I wanted to watch at the time. A cpl of hours later I noticed that the S9 was continually rebooting itself. So I then shut it down using the power switch on back, then I disconnected the diseq cable going into it. I turned it back on, and it was still rebooting itself. I then searched Google and found out that some channels cause the S9 to do this, and to get it off that channel. It took a bit, but I finally accomplished that and the S9 was no longer rebooting itself. I eventually moved to another sat altogether. I then reconnected the diseq cable to the back of the S9, and then turned on the receiver. It was rebooting again. So I shut it off of course. At the time I happened to touch the diseq switch. It was very hot to the touch, very hot actually. Are these things supposed to be hot like that?
So I then took the diseq out of the loop, changed setting from port 2 on C band to no port, and couldn't get a signal. Apparently the lnbf is fried, which did turn out to be the case. So I then took the C Band RG6 out and put the KU RG6 directly into the S9 instead. The offset dish was parked on 97W at the time, but no channels would tune in. So I did a blindscan and and it did find some signals, but only 2. So I went out to that dish thinking the tracking may have gotten off somehow, and while I was out there, I was checking the skew to the lnbf, and it was very hot to the touch as well. the lnbf that is. And this would have been at night after the temperature outside has dropped to like 60 or so. Should that lnbf be hot to the touch like that?
Right now I have the S9 completely unplugged until I figure out if all these other things are normal, a very hot to the touch diseq switch and lnbf, and what to do it about it, if anything.
So I then took the diseq out of the loop, changed setting from port 2 on C band to no port, and couldn't get a signal. Apparently the lnbf is fried, which did turn out to be the case. So I then took the C Band RG6 out and put the KU RG6 directly into the S9 instead. The offset dish was parked on 97W at the time, but no channels would tune in. So I did a blindscan and and it did find some signals, but only 2. So I went out to that dish thinking the tracking may have gotten off somehow, and while I was out there, I was checking the skew to the lnbf, and it was very hot to the touch as well. the lnbf that is. And this would have been at night after the temperature outside has dropped to like 60 or so. Should that lnbf be hot to the touch like that?
Right now I have the S9 completely unplugged until I figure out if all these other things are normal, a very hot to the touch diseq switch and lnbf, and what to do it about it, if anything.
