I and some of my friends had same problem with ff card (rev.1.3) after 5-6 years. And replaced LNBP chip (located near bigest capacitor), now everything work as used to be. Total cost of repair was 10 euros ;)

cedo

P.S. It dosen't meen that you have the same problem as I, but you could try.

----- Original Message ---- From: Patrick Maier maierp@informatik.tu-muenchen.de To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Monday, February 9, 2009 8:23:13 AM Subject: Re: [vdr] Use FF Card only as output device

Hi Klaus,

...

my DVB-S FF card broke down those days. I think it's the tuner of the card, So is it possible to use the Tuner of the buget card and use the broken FF card only as display device and tell the system not to use the broken tuner?

You could insert the lines [...] at the beginning of cDvbDevice::ProvidesSource().

Cool. Works great (except for some distortions for the first two seconds when switching the channels, but this is ok for me :-) [I still use VDR 1.5.18]

Thanks a lot Patrick

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I've get it from http://search.digikey.com/scripts/DkSearch/dksus.dll?Detail&name=497-834... About the oszilloscope and signals, sorry but I don't know... Hope that you will fix your card soon, cedo

----- Original Message ---- From: Patrick Maier maierp@informatik.tu-muenchen.de To: VDR Mailing List vdr@linuxtv.org Sent: Friday, February 13, 2009 11:36:28 AM Subject: Re: [vdr] Use FF Card only as output device

Hi,

I and some of my friends had same problem with ff card (rev.1.3) after 5-6 years. And replaced LNBP chip (located near bigest capacitor), now everything work as used to be. Total cost of repair was 10 euros ;)

Ah cool. I've also a rev. 1.3 so I will try to do the same :-) Can you give me the part-number of that chip. Where did you get it?

So This is the power supply for the LNB and creates the different voltages and frequencies telling which band and H/V is required. Can I test the actual output with an oszilloscope? You know which signals must be there when in low/high-band and H/V?

Greets and thank you Patrick

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Hi Christian,

In Germany, you can get it from Segor: http://www.segor.de/suche.shtml?foto=0&Q=LNBP16&M=1 So it might be a good idea to ask/search on vdr-portal or offer the spare ones there.

Ah ok :-) so I'll see what i can do :-)

If VDR is tuned to a transponder with vertical polarization, you should see 13V supply on the connector. With horizontal polarization, it should be 18V.

Ok my Voltage was 0V when it should be 13V and a sawtooth like voltage aroud 14V-19V

Thanks Patrick