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DISH SETUP: Single sat, Multi-Sat & Motorised
Advice on faulty V-box II
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<blockquote data-quote="Blondegirl" data-source="post: 1104443" data-attributes="member: 416293"><p>It was the V-Box!</p><p></p><p>I decided there was nothing wrong with the dish, so I stripped the V-Box down.</p><p></p><p>It is a mess inside! there are tracks cut, and loads of badly inserted links/jumpers, and even the board looks like it was left out in the rain for 10 years! - I bought it brand new, never been opened and in the comfort of the living room since purchase - so it came like that!</p><p></p><p>Anyhow, the voltage to the reed switch should be 5V, internally there is a 7805 regulator feeding a resistor to the reed switch terminals, from the other terminal it has another resistor which feeds an opto isolator.</p><p></p><p>Everything looked OK, but it appears the connection between the pcb and terminals for the reed switch was split, I soldered a piece of wire to link across the broken track as below now all is well with the Vbox - motor positioner!:</p><p></p><p>[ATTACH=full]134312[/ATTACH]</p><p></p><p>My addition is the lower-left one with the bend in it, the other is just one of the examples of the links which must have been done before it was supplied!</p><p></p><p>So all working, just got to re-align everything as it's lost the reference positions </p><p></p><p>That's for another day!!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Blondegirl, post: 1104443, member: 416293"] It was the V-Box! I decided there was nothing wrong with the dish, so I stripped the V-Box down. It is a mess inside! there are tracks cut, and loads of badly inserted links/jumpers, and even the board looks like it was left out in the rain for 10 years! - I bought it brand new, never been opened and in the comfort of the living room since purchase - so it came like that! Anyhow, the voltage to the reed switch should be 5V, internally there is a 7805 regulator feeding a resistor to the reed switch terminals, from the other terminal it has another resistor which feeds an opto isolator. Everything looked OK, but it appears the connection between the pcb and terminals for the reed switch was split, I soldered a piece of wire to link across the broken track as below now all is well with the Vbox - motor positioner!: [ATTACH type="full"]134312[/ATTACH] My addition is the lower-left one with the bend in it, the other is just one of the examples of the links which must have been done before it was supplied! So all working, just got to re-align everything as it's lost the reference positions That's for another day!! [/QUOTE]
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