Fuse holders are cheap and usually not at all difficult to change. Nautel had an issue some 10 or so years ago with a bad batch of fuse holders. After a problem with one I replaced all of them on the ND25 just taken out of service this past summer. No fault of Nautel - blame it on the maker of the ...

I had this happen once with a 2200 at a site with poor AC power regulation. I rebooted the unit to fix it, then put it on a UPS. No more troubles.

I have another 2200 at a different site that I haven't had an issue with, but I also put it on a UPS as a precaution.

WAG, since I never worked on one...look for dried-up caps on the power supply rails.

On most dishes at the day job, we're using an extendable pole with a squeegee modified by the boss to have a curved surface to match the dish best as possible.

I would strongly suggest finding a way to do the internal measurement under power without cheating interlocks. There’s often a way of sneaking a couple of test leads out of the cabinet without bypassing interlocks. Different situation but I once had to measure some voltage in a Continental 315F 10k...

Got a call from a client while shoveling snow...local breaks aren't firing in the NFC Championship game. The PD had rechecked his automation programming and all looked well. I told him to call WWOne NetOps...they will check your receiver, tell you everything looks good, and the breaks will magically...

I've never worked on a Gates One, but it's basically an SX-1 with many of the mistakes removed... Before the PA fuse blows, is there an obvious imbalance in the PA phases? Follow the procedure in the manual to test in-circuit ALL of the PA MOSFETs and the PDM Amp MOSFETs. Be sure to use a suitable V...

Love talking to first-level support that insist on working the script, even though your introduction to the problem stated all of the obvious first troubleshooting steps had been taken. Perhaps side-tracking the thread, but I've found it interesting that the two most productive IT troubleshooting ph...

I usually won't be caught dead in an equipment rack during a newscast. Twenty-some years ago I bumped a prompter DA once during a newscast and made it blank for a second. Caught more hell from that (all from the on-air anchor) than the three times I messed up the station signal in front of three dif...

... I remember thinking, back when we bought the 40x40 Utah AVS-1 back in 1984, that it was big enough that we would never outgrow it... :lol: I think our AVS-1 started out 40x40 mono, then expanded to 60x40 stereo (but only for the first 40 inputs). Full long before I arrived in '94. Kinda miss it...

So to review, all ISO temps, module current, etc, are about the same? I recall one conversation with Walter that mentioned an occasional issue can be the ribbon cables themselves. I assume you've reseated them all. In some rare instances, they can become intermittent due to air currents moving them ...

...Did you notice that last month Evertz bought Quintech?... No I didn't...great. :roll: We do use Quintech active splitters and LNB supplies. Rolling your own sounds like a fun project. I had to build up some small perfboards with terminal blocks and optos earlier this year, and I wondered when wa...

We use Compusat software... I'd give Andrew a call and see what he recommends. You have to buy something he can talk to anyway. :wink: We've never used a matrix control at my TV day-job, all of the receivers we use have four-port switches built-in, and along with active splitters for each dish, we ...

I am spending Thanksgiving on-call for my 35th straight year... You old! On-call since 1981...does that make me old too? :lol: I did have one call...someone screwed up a shared video folder. A quick VPN session took care of it, then out to the grill to burn some burgers...the family turkey meal is ...

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Sun Nov 18, 2018 8:35 am

Worked out in SW Iowa on a directional...

There are only a couple of directionals in SW Iowa that I'm aware of...KMA and KYFR. Found any burned-up OIB leads in your TX buildings, Mr. Brockmeyer?