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Bought a new, 750mm dish with, what looks like, a quad LNB with a 'Sky' sticker on it (new/unused off fleabay) as our old Lidl dish got broken in some high winds recently.
Set it up this morning, plugged the co-ax cable into the LNB, popped into the van to turn the receiver on and.................no life in the receiver!!! Nothing....no digits lit up on the front.....
Am I doing something wrong?
We dont want a 'Sky' set-up, just the ability to point the dish at the satellite of our choice......
The receiver is the Silvercrest from Lidl and seemed to be working fine before the dish got broken....
Sounds like the receiver has blown a fuse or failed. A receiver should normally not require a connection to an lnb to power up. I would unplug the lnb cable and then power up the receiver. The receiver supplys power to the lnb. Maybe there is a protection circuit that stops it powering up if there is an lnb or lnb cable fault?
ummmm.
I would of course look for the obvious, power supply fuse, are you using a 12v or 240v system?
Dish alone would not cause any problem with the reciever.
Also is it this one.
Only a guess but the receiver supplies a nominal voltage to the LNB. Maybe the outer braid of the Satellite cable has shorted with the inner and the receiver fuse has blown.
If you connect a sat finder but not the dish and the sat finder shows life, no probs but if not then I guess the problem goes back to the receiver (fuse etc).
It must be the receiver as the digits are not lighting up on the front....If its on 12 volt via a cig lighter adaptor check the fuse inside the adaptor and the supply to the 12v socket....if its on 240 volts check the plug fuse and the supply to the plug.
Some receivers have a fuse inside them you have to remove the outside cover so check this last it may have blown.
Well - there is no fuse (that I can get at) in the plug, as this is a sealed 'transformer' type to step the voltage down from 240 to 14v.
Took cover off receiver and......no fuse in there either!!!!! And no obvious answers.....at least to me anyway....who doesnt really know what he is looking at when it comes to electronics and circuit boards!!!!
Ho hum....
Carl
PS - The socket it is plugged into is powered ok....
Unfortunately, I dont have a multimeter.....although it is on my Christmas list!!!
However - you gave me an idea. I dug around amongst a pile of adapters / chargers / transformers etc. in a box and found a 240v/14v transformer that fitted the socket in the back of the receiver and - hey presto - the box lit up as it is supposed to!!!!
SO - I guess the transformer/plug has had it and a new one is on order......£10 as opposed to £40+ for a new receiver...
Thankyou one and all for your suggestions - they certainly helped push my brain into thinking a little more laterally!!!
Cheers
Carl
One thing to be a bit careful of is the plug that goes into the receiver could have been the wrong polarity and blown up the receiver!!
Most of them are centre pin positive but there is the odd device that has a centre negative pin!!
Just mentioning it in case anyone else has the same idea and blows their kit up.
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