Have installed Freesat kit from B&Q combined with Silvercrest SL45 receiver from Lidl. Nothing but the best for me!
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Initially got good signal from Astra 28.2 - in fact I barely had to set it up at all, initial setup by eye after looking at neighbour's dishes, then a small nudge on the side and got 73% signal. This was on saturday last. All well and good except had no signal on two occasions since. First time I think the dish dropped because I hadn't tightened it up enough - easy fix. Second time, no such luck. Cannot get any signal now, no matter how much I move the dish side to side and up and down. All movements are incremental and with pauses of 10 - 30 seconds between.
So I connected the signal finder that came with the dish. It has lights and 'screeches' when I turn the knob. Now, no matter where I point the dish, the signal according to the signal finder does not change. i.e. the sound does not raise or lower in pitch, and the number of lights neither increases nor decreases. Well, actually the sound lowers in pitch slowly over time (five minutes), whether the dish is moved or not.
Could it be I have a faulty LNB? Not sure I know anyone well enough with a similar system to be able to try swapping parts. What sort of tests can I make? Don't want to have to resort to buying duplicate parts just yet.
I am an electrician and have electrical test tools to hand, just don't understand satellite systems.
http://nextday.diy.com/app/jsp/product/productPage.jsp?productId=85448
Initially got good signal from Astra 28.2 - in fact I barely had to set it up at all, initial setup by eye after looking at neighbour's dishes, then a small nudge on the side and got 73% signal. This was on saturday last. All well and good except had no signal on two occasions since. First time I think the dish dropped because I hadn't tightened it up enough - easy fix. Second time, no such luck. Cannot get any signal now, no matter how much I move the dish side to side and up and down. All movements are incremental and with pauses of 10 - 30 seconds between.
So I connected the signal finder that came with the dish. It has lights and 'screeches' when I turn the knob. Now, no matter where I point the dish, the signal according to the signal finder does not change. i.e. the sound does not raise or lower in pitch, and the number of lights neither increases nor decreases. Well, actually the sound lowers in pitch slowly over time (five minutes), whether the dish is moved or not.
Could it be I have a faulty LNB? Not sure I know anyone well enough with a similar system to be able to try swapping parts. What sort of tests can I make? Don't want to have to resort to buying duplicate parts just yet.
I am an electrician and have electrical test tools to hand, just don't understand satellite systems.