[vdr] No signal - Dish seems fine - femon output follow

[Luca Olivetti]

En/na VDR User ha escrit:

> Yeah, I know how to tell if a capacitor is bad, went to college for
> electronic engineering.  In all my years of working with electronics I
> have never seen a capacitor blow because a device was left on for a
> long period of time and then turned off.  

Yes, those were two unrelated problem, and, no, a capacitor won't blow, 
but as it degrades (due to excessive heat, bad quality or simply a 
borderline design), it will go on working while the equipment is 
switched on, but if you turn it off it won't work when you switch it 
back on.

>I'd recommend buying better
> equipment if you're having a problem with (cheap) parts failing.

Well, usually you don't have a choice on the components used, only on 
the final product, and the problem with bad capacitors in motherboards 
is spread among many top tier vendors, so it's not a problem of cheap 
components. Besides, there are no-name capacitors sold as brand name ones.
And even expensive products eventually fail.


Bye
-- 
Luca