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<blockquote data-quote="Mike Richards" data-source="post: 808258" data-attributes="member: 357784">In an earlier posting Tivu said&nbsp; &quot;Your Sky Box may be faulty of course - failing to lock could be symptomatic of incipient Power Supply Smoothing Capacitor failure: What Make/Model is it? For partly degraded Capacitors of the ilk, it is not uncommon for the Box to recover&nbsp; from an apparent malfunction once it's been powered up for a while. The effect is more pronounced, of course, if the Box is only occasionally used.&quot;&nbsp; Phew! &quot;Incipient power supply smoothing capacitator failure&quot; sounds dire (wish I knew what it meant though).Tivu - thank you for your reply. You clearly know a great deal more about this than I (ever) will. Now that I have the motorhome back at home I have found the information that you asked for. The box is made by Pace; the model number is DS430N and the other serial number is CABAAWE13710809. Could I ask you to tell me whether or not &quot;Incipient power supply smoothing capacitator failure&quot; is likely with this age and model? And if so, what I can do about it? Thank you. Your expertise is very welcome. Regards, Mike</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mike Richards, post: 808258, member: 357784"] In an earlier posting Tivu said "Your Sky Box may be faulty of course - failing to lock could be symptomatic of incipient Power Supply Smoothing Capacitor failure: What Make/Model is it? For partly degraded Capacitors of the ilk, it is not uncommon for the Box to recover from an apparent malfunction once it's been powered up for a while. The effect is more pronounced, of course, if the Box is only occasionally used." Phew! "Incipient power supply smoothing capacitator failure" sounds dire (wish I knew what it meant though). Tivu - thank you for your reply. You clearly know a great deal more about this than I (ever) will. Now that I have the motorhome back at home I have found the information that you asked for. The box is made by Pace; the model number is DS430N and the other serial number is CABAAWE13710809. Could I ask you to tell me whether or not "Incipient power supply smoothing capacitator failure" is likely with this age and model? And if so, what I can do about it? Thank you. Your expertise is very welcome. Regards, Mike [/QUOTE]

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