Recent content by Crisbe

For those of you in the UK. RS Components sell sheet materials such as nylon, polycarbonate acrylic, polyester, polyurethane, polyethylene etc.etc. I can't tell you what the dielectric qualities of any of them are though as the book does not give that info.

I don't know about any of the other guys but I think the best thing to happen on Ice Road Truckers this series is Lisa: Gutsy, Gorgeous and what a driver!!!!

If you have a sky+ box then, as Tivu said, you will have two feeds to the box (two cables with screw connections that come down from the dish). If, as Tivu suspects, what you meant in your post was that one feed that is giving problems and the other feed is okay then it is very unlikely to be a...

If he is intending having any satellite receivers that can record one program while watching another he will need two satellite feeds to those recievers. ie Sky + etc. So you may need to allow for this. You can also get Octo LNBs (with 8 outputs) that act as 8 individual LNBs within one unit...

Would you believe me if I told you that the VT editor was Grant Goodwin, who just happens to be married to my younger sister. There are a lot of outtakes people have never seen, every time they had a good take if the cameras were still rolling Zippy and Bungle became naughty puppets. Every...

Funny I always thought Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was a reference to LSD. We live and learn. R.I.P. Lucy.

It depends on what you want to receive. If you give a few more details of what you want to do then the guys on here that are the experts at testing and evaluating equipment will give you some honest answers. For example you say you are looking at getting a dreambox. My advice is, be very wary...

You're welcome Kevin, Please come back and tell us what the answer to the problem was, when you finally get it sorted, as every bit of info is valuable to the guys that try to help with problems.

My first car was an Austin A30. That was back in the days before the government got greedy with the fuel tax and petrol cost 3 shillings and 6 pence a gallon. ( That is 17.5pence in today's money, for 4.5 litres of leaded petrol. Just under 3p per litre.) I was an apprentice electrician at the...

I am not sure if it is, but looking at the first picture it looks like you have an F connector fitted on the end of the coax cable and that is screwed on to an adapter which is converting it to a push on connector. Unscrew the cable connector from the adapter and you should be left with an F...

Both cables take power to the LNB. If you have a dual output LNB you have to think of it as two seperate LNBs in one unit sharing the same feedhorn. Are you sure your dish is okay, if it is on a wall of your house it is not unheard of for a dish to get knocked by someone being careless with a...

Silly question, Has anyone done any electrical work at the house recently, and maybe run a power cable alongside the feed to the dish, without leaving any seperation between them? What I am thinking is, if the guy is a DIYer and has maybe done something like put up an outside light with the...

If you are an IT expert, have you tried closing the windows and then starting again! he! he!

If the old sky dish has been up there a long time it may be aligned to 19.2E which is where sky was before it moved to the Astra satellites at 28.2E. If you used the alignment of the old dish as a guide to where to point the new dish you could be about 9 degrees too far West with the dish. There...

Just a thought. The way technology is advancing in terms of production of electronics in a few years time the cost of PV cell arrays might come down a lot. Especially if there is more demand and they step up production. Installation costs will always be cheaper if the systems are put in at the...