A week or two ago, I posted about having problems running my PROF with Crazyscan when using a universal LNBF.
Today, I was trying this again, and was really having problems.
If I set up all the parameters, and run a scan, it usually doesn't work right, and I can't get it to work. Ie, it's not scanning what it's supposed to be scanning.
If, after I set up the parameters, I turn off Crazyscan. Unplug the PROF, then plug it in again, and THEN run a scan, it seems to run the scan properly. If I do a blind scan on a portion of the scan, it finds the correct transponders. HOWEVER, if I click on one of those transponders, and bring up the window with the constellation diagram, it generally locks in a transponder that is on a different port on my diseqC switch. From this point on, I cannot get Crazyscan to reset the diseqC port to bring back the proper LNBF. Ie, I have to stop Crazyscan, unplug the PROF, and start over.
I've tried 2 different versions of Crazyscan, and both behave similarly. Crazyscan seems to work OK with my TBS6925, and the universal LNBF seems to work OK when run from my Genpix SW1.
I ran into another oddity today. In trying to troubleshoot this issue, I tried to slave the PROF off my Genpix. I got very confused when I found that after I connected both Genpix and PROF to a splitter with power pass going to the Genpix, that I could no longer lock horizontal transponders, but I still could do vertical. I disconnected the PROF, and I still couldn't lock horizontal. So just using a power pass splitter between Genpix and the coax to the dish somehow kept me from locking horizontal.
I thought that perhaps the splitter had some resistance that was cutting back the voltage so that I wasn't getting 18V, but I connected an in-line meter, and it was still putting out 18V on the dish side of the splitter. I thought perhaps the splitter was blocking diseqC, and sending me to another lnbf out at the dish. I don't think that's what's happening, but I'm not positive yet.
I tried using an old TV style splitter, putting a DC block on the line to the PROF, and that did allow me to lock horizontal, but there was quite a bit of drop-off at the high end of the band. At least the cheap splitter did isolate the horizontal problem to the power pass splitter.
Today, I was trying this again, and was really having problems.
If I set up all the parameters, and run a scan, it usually doesn't work right, and I can't get it to work. Ie, it's not scanning what it's supposed to be scanning.
If, after I set up the parameters, I turn off Crazyscan. Unplug the PROF, then plug it in again, and THEN run a scan, it seems to run the scan properly. If I do a blind scan on a portion of the scan, it finds the correct transponders. HOWEVER, if I click on one of those transponders, and bring up the window with the constellation diagram, it generally locks in a transponder that is on a different port on my diseqC switch. From this point on, I cannot get Crazyscan to reset the diseqC port to bring back the proper LNBF. Ie, I have to stop Crazyscan, unplug the PROF, and start over.
I've tried 2 different versions of Crazyscan, and both behave similarly. Crazyscan seems to work OK with my TBS6925, and the universal LNBF seems to work OK when run from my Genpix SW1.
I ran into another oddity today. In trying to troubleshoot this issue, I tried to slave the PROF off my Genpix. I got very confused when I found that after I connected both Genpix and PROF to a splitter with power pass going to the Genpix, that I could no longer lock horizontal transponders, but I still could do vertical. I disconnected the PROF, and I still couldn't lock horizontal. So just using a power pass splitter between Genpix and the coax to the dish somehow kept me from locking horizontal.
I thought that perhaps the splitter had some resistance that was cutting back the voltage so that I wasn't getting 18V, but I connected an in-line meter, and it was still putting out 18V on the dish side of the splitter. I thought perhaps the splitter was blocking diseqC, and sending me to another lnbf out at the dish. I don't think that's what's happening, but I'm not positive yet.
I tried using an old TV style splitter, putting a DC block on the line to the PROF, and that did allow me to lock horizontal, but there was quite a bit of drop-off at the high end of the band. At least the cheap splitter did isolate the horizontal problem to the power pass splitter.