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NOW RESOLVED ...... HUMAX HDR1100S - no power

K9sandFelines · 2017-07-19 14:42:02

Hi I wonder if anybody can help with this issue? I have had the freesat box sat unused and to my knowledge unplugged for about six months. I have just the past few days decided I wanted to start using it, so plugged it back in and went to attach the power cable to the back of the receiver; but I am getting no power at all.…

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K9sandFelines Posts: 2,861 Forumite

20 July 2017 at 11:36AM

Strider590 wrote: »

With items that spend years plugged in and then a long period unplugged, the likely suspect is going to be capacitors, and most likely 1000uf capacitors, as caps are about the only electronic components that really "age".

Put it this way, I know guys who buy a few hundred of them, go down the local recycling centre, pull TVs out of skips, change the capacitors and then sell them on eBay.

If you get nowhere with it, take it apart, look for:

If you see any bulging or leaking, then that is 100% the problem.

Sorry meant to quote you. See first response above.

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