During a snow storm last night my vu went off, checking the signal strength its ranging from zero to 26% and keeps fluctuating. This morning checked the dish and the lnb as ice on it hope this is the problem.
Before getting my ladders out will I be ok to pour hot water on the lnb, or can I tap it to see if I can break the ice off.
Cheers
i would take lnb off m8 and take it indoors to defrost as i doubt pouring on hot water on it will do the lnb any good, after it has defrosted get your dish at 28e and see what sig strength your getting, if nothing try another sat 13 or 19 if still nothing, you could try manually moving your dish just incase for some reason your coords are out, if none of that works and still no signal i would be looking at a new lnb m8 as i have has 2 new lnb's in the past 12 months and i have a vu.
i doubt pouring on hot water on it will do the lnb any good
ice on the lnb will definately cause signal to degrade ! let it (thor) out and then try it ! Is the dish clear of snow as that will stop the signal too !
Go careful with ladders if there is ice on the ground mate !
There is no snow just ice on the dish, used my s** hd box to check the signal and quality strength but there nothing. Looks like its ladder time for yours truely.
Thanks for your help lads.
Just another thought if you got a hairdryer and and an extension why not give that a try ;)
Might as well i'm going up the ladder anyway.
avoid hot water for sure ! Get ya mrs hairdryer on it ! thats the best use i have ever heard fof a hair dryer pmsl,Nice one Mutz
On a serious note try not to move anything too much Fatlad ! mainly skew ! so as mutz says try the hair dryer ! pics of you doing that would be brilliant !
QuoteJust another thought if you got a hairdryer and and an extension why not give that a try ;)
The neighbours will piss themselfs and might send for the looney bus..lol
All i can think of is ending up in the local A/E, my son lives next door to me and he's got the same problem couple of fta but no *** channels and he's got signal strength on his s** hd box.
Don't worry about any pictures my wife already got the camera out and a comment of i'm not missing this for the world.
Just been up the ladder to mine luckily it was just a thick layer of snow accross my dish so just broomed it off now back to working again, but people be safe dazzza
same here in surrey all 4 of mine but its slowly melting fook the ladder LOL
The lnb being cold will actually improve signal, signal going down is usually a layer of snow/ice on the head of the lnb or dish.
In the good old days we used to cut a pop bottle up to keep rain/snow off the head of the lnb.
All sorted cleaned as much as i could by hand, it back on late last night.
Cheers everyone for the advise.
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