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Could this be another instance of the tuner saga?

I had the feeling that heat around the heat sink had more effect. Perhaps you could try the blow torch there before you give up.. I also found that HD channels were affected before SD Mine is still working OK after 8 nonths.

Vodaphone, FTTC (originally Plusnet ASDL)

I have just been converted to FTTP and have retained my old BT number. This seems to be standard with most service providers nowadays. The old land line had become unreliable and periodically noisy,even though the connection under the pavement outside had been recently dug up and renewed,in an...

I believe you can't have WiFi and Lan at the same time, only one or the other.

Still in daily use after 5 months... https://hummy.tv/forum/threads/tuner-saga.11015/

Five months on and still in daily use...

Some of the regulars may remember a thread from eighteen months ago where I was investigating tuner difficulties following damage caused by a falling picture frame... Dead HDR-FOXT2? | hummy.tv ...and a follow up six months ago. HDR Fox T2 loses all signals after a day or 2 unused | hummy.tv A...

Inserting/removing a USB device did not fix the problem. I contacted Humax and they replaced the unit which was only a week old. I closed the thread on the other forum, but obviously forgot to close here.

Thanks. That is the actual board supplied by BH from which I salvaged the tuners. I was more interested in the component functional descriptions eg "tuners", "modulators" "regulators" etc

I did some work last year with help from BH but due to failing eyesight I could not reliably identify the relevant components. If anyone has photos similat to the one posted by /df above, It would considerably help me.

This sounds very like the problem I had this time last year. To save anyone from ploughing through the thread , I established that the tuners were not at fault (by substitution) and the signal was being lost later in the processing chain. Applying heat by a hair dryer would restore the picture...

Both my machines recorded Sat (92min) and Sun (153 min) OK. both starting with the leading logo. Both set to AR, Winter Hill transmitter.

In modern parlance (not that I like modern parlance) "dissed" is short for "disrespected", and means insulted. I've never in all my engineering years come across it as an abbreviation for disconnected ' All my working life I have understood that things going 'diss' or 'dissing' something...

Yes, I have similar thoughts, but the supplies look identical in the failed condition or not. I did notice that Newcoppiceman's capacitor was running about 15 degrees hotter than all the others that averaged about 37 degrees, but decided that as it is associated with the 12 volt supply, it...