sat box died

[buckeyefarmer]

right now it's working, seems to be an intermittent problem so far. the last 2 nights it did this, but by morning was working ok. This time I did pull and reinsert the smart card, so maybe that did the trick.
btw, you can buy directv and dishnetwork boxes from dishdepot.com

thanks for the info on DHPP, might have to check that out if this continues.

I've done all my own dish installs, including the dish 1000. the key point is to have the arm perfectly level, set the angles per your zip code, and then just rotate the antenna bracket on the level arm till the signal comes in. I've never used a meter, but have taken a receiver and small tv outside to help. :laughing:

 

[catfishdaddyengineering]

We were Dish Network customers for almost ten years when the dish receiver went out. We were the "old" type of customer that owned our system. I actually won it a sales seminar and installed it myself. Since we were not new customers, we could not get the free system and installation. I told them that was fine, just send me the equipment for me to install. No can do I was told. It has to be installed by one of their installers for a $100 fee. I asked them about customer loyalty and might as well have been told "too bad, so sad." So, I told them to shove it, I'll go with DirecTV where I will be a new customer and get everything for free. Dish started back-peddling then, but I told them too late.

 

[sellercreek]

From recent experience, be sure to plug the receiver directly into a wall outlet, not a surge protector.

Also, the DHPP seems to be a good deal. I haven't had to use it, but have it now.

 

[gauthier]

We use dish,have for 8 years or so,no problems with them.

We just upgraded[had an older dvr box] cause we wanted to get local channels,so they had to put up a second dish and new dvr box,you might try that route,didn't cost a penny more to do this,and he didn't check to see if old box worked or not.

 

[JimRB]

I had a Direct TV receiver act up. Opened it up and replaced a bunch of capacitors that had swelled/popped. Works fine again. Well I did have one cap that still needs to be swapped out but in any event it works fine. Easier to swap out the caps in the Direct TV box I had compared with motherboard cap replacement. Here is a page that explains the problem in computers and many things that used capacitors. Badcaps.net - Badcaps Home

 

[Skyco]

From recent experience, be sure to plug the receiver directly into a wall outlet, not a surge protector.

Can you elaborate? I use surge protectors all over and have for years- no problems yet...

 

[Bird]

Can you elaborate? I use surge protectors all over and have for years- no problems yet...

I was thinking the same thing.

 

[Bird]

We were Dish Network customers for almost ten years when the dish receiver went out. We were the "old" type of customer that owned our system. I actually won it a sales seminar and installed it myself.

Wish I'd won our first one.:laughing: Our first satellite TV reception was DirecTV, but out in the country 60 miles south of Dallas, it was directly with them. Instead it was Pegasus. Why the different name, I have no idea. But I bought the system in May, 1997, at Circuit City for $322.58 and installed it myself. Both, one of my brothers and one of my wife's brothers, also bought the same systems and I helped installl them.

 

[sellercreek]

Can you elaborate? I use surge protectors all over and have for years- no problems yet...

When I was having trouble last Spring, two different telephone tech support folks from Dish asked if my receiver was plugged directly into a wall outlet. When the tech came later after I had moved, he said it was important not to use a surge protector. I, too, had used one for years with no problems, but plugging directly into the wall did solve the constant rebooting issues I was having earlier this year. My receiver would reboot a half dozen times a day.

That is all I know. I don't have a technical explanation.

 

[brokenknee]

When I was having trouble last Spring, two different telephone tech support folks from Dish asked if my receiver was plugged directly into a wall outlet. When the tech came later after I had moved, he said it was important not to use a surge protector. I, too, had used one for years with no problems, but plugging directly into the wall did solve the constant rebooting issues I was having earlier this year. My receiver would reboot a half dozen times a day.

That is all I know. I don't have a technical explanation.

I would think you had a bad surge protector then. I don't see how that would have made any difference. My brother in law is an electrician, next time I talk to him I will see if he knows.

Mine has been plugged into a surge protector for ten years. Only one box died and I don't think it was the surge protectors fault.