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<blockquote data-quote="easysat" data-source="post: 2013" data-attributes="member: 175305">The tuner is the rectangular metal box with the F connector sticking out the back of the Digibox. It is possible to remove it if you have a good quality soldering iron and either a desoldering tool or some desoldering braid and a bit of patience. If you haven't got this equipment, you'll have to pay a repairer to to the job for you.The difficult part is getting the solder off the two metal lugs at either end of the tuner as you need to heat a lot of tin plate to the temperature at which solder melts. The lugs have been twisted after the tuner is inserted in the board and it is difficult to remove all the solder and straighten the lugs so that they can pass through the board again.If you know someone with some expertise in electronics, you can repair the tuner for the price of a £1-50 kit from Grandata. It consists of a couple of surface mount capacitor chips which will generally get the tuner working again. Alternatively I can explain which capacitors to change and what values to try if anyone wants to have a go themselves (but I'm off on holiday to France tomorrow :-) .)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="easysat, post: 2013, member: 175305"] The tuner is the rectangular metal box with the F connector sticking out the back of the Digibox. It is possible to remove it if you have a good quality soldering iron and either a desoldering tool or some desoldering braid and a bit of patience. If you haven't got this equipment, you'll have to pay a repairer to to the job for you. The difficult part is getting the solder off the two metal lugs at either end of the tuner as you need to heat a lot of tin plate to the temperature at which solder melts. The lugs have been twisted after the tuner is inserted in the board and it is difficult to remove all the solder and straighten the lugs so that they can pass through the board again. If you know someone with some expertise in electronics, you can repair the tuner for the price of a £1-50 kit from Grandata. It consists of a couple of surface mount capacitor chips which will generally get the tuner working again. Alternatively I can explain which capacitors to change and what values to try if anyone wants to have a go themselves (but I'm off on holiday to France tomorrow :-) .) [/QUOTE]

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