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Originally Posted by Larry Acklin
I'm starting to hate Diseqc switches. PIN diodes do not take any overvoltages well, and static even less. I've popped one port on 2 seperate switches just by forgetting to remove power, and unhooking coax. My impression is there is also lots of leakage. I had the same situation- and could get usable quality numbers even with no coax on the port I selected. The stupid switch leaked so much signal that I was very confused.
I have another that only cleanly switches between ports 2 and 4
I'd love to find a brand or model that isn't so touchy. (without having to spend $100 in Canada)
Even reed relays are better than this technology.
Larry
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Yeah, I agree. A couple years ago, I bought 4 different diseqC switches, and none of them worked, right out of the box. The particular switch I'm using is one of those 4, however for some strange reason, about a year ago I decided to try it again, and for some reason, it had come back to life, and was working, so I've had it out on my 90CM for the past year, and it seemed to be working fine, but I guess it reverted to it's original condition.
I can't remember what the original symptoms of this particular switch originally were. Sone of the switches wouldn't switch to some of the ports, but one of the switches didn't pass DC properly, which is similar to my current problems, so I"m guessing that maybe that's the one I'm using now.
But yes, I wish there was a source of quality DiseqC switches. My first
DiseqC switch cost me close to $30 I think, and it is still working fine on another receiver, but these 4 more recent switches all cost me less than $7 each, and I guess you get what you pay for, however there doesn't seem to be any place you can get the quality ones anymore. I wouldn't mind going back to $30 switches if we could rely on the quality.