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No picture om Minitiouner

Posted: Mon May 13, 2019 12:56 pm
by ZS1MM
My minitiouner passes all the tests perfectly. I transmit with my Portsdown transmitter and check the output with a STB. The picture is perfect. On the minitiouner everything locks as it should but the last led on the TS group stays red and there is no picture. Is this a hardware problem or is it a windows setup problem? This seems to be quite a common problem. I have already replaced the 74HC10 chip and checked all its inputs and output with a scope and the activity is there.
Can anyone please help.
Leon
ZS1MM

Re: No picture om Minitiouner

Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 2:53 pm
by G4GUO
While I can't talk about the BATC units I have seen this problem on a couple of Minitiouner-Express units returned to me under warranty.
Both BATC and Express units are very similar in design.

In one case it turned out to be a dry joint inside the Serit tuner itself and the other a short on the D clock line.

Check you have sensible data on all the transport stream pins including the sync and d clock ones coming out of the Serit
and that the impedance of the lines is in the order of 300 K or greater. The shorted tuner appeared as 3.4 ohms.

- Charles

Re: No picture om Minitiouner

Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 4:42 pm
by g8gtz
Hi Leon,

As Charles says, this could be the Serit NIM although not sure why the last "led" stays red. I have had 2 failures in the 600 or 700 shipped from BATC.

Can you test it on a satellite signal to see what results you get on that - Lyngsat says there is a number of free to air signal which MT will decode - https://www.lyngsat.com/freetv/South-Africa.html. Or alternatively if you are set up to receive Oscar100, see if you can decode the beacon.

73

Noel - G8GTZ

Re: No picture om Minitiouner

Posted: Wed May 15, 2019 4:54 pm
by G4GUO
The last led indicates 'bytes are received in the buffer' and I suspect it means bytes in the minitioune SW buffer. I suspect he is not seeing any SI tables either. We see that when the NIM thinks it has a valid signal but the data being passed between the NIM and USB is non existant, usually indicating a hardware fault (well in the two faulty units I have looked at).

- Charles