Daewoo DS608P - is fault due to C101 cap??

Ivan - thanks for useful pictures of DS608 PCB's.

The PSU board even shows the brown scorching marks around IC101 which
is also on my PSU board!!! Its interesting that the scorching in on
the latest Mk3 board!!

Any idea if any of the "modern" Freeview boxes have the same (or
better) front end sensitivity as the DS608? The only other Freeview I
have with an RF modulator is a Hauppauge - it works well and the front
end is maybe only a few dB behind the Daewoo.

Cheers







On 7 Aug, 19:26, "Ivan" wrote:
"Alan Pemberton" wrote in message

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wrote:

So, if you want they latest firmware , it might not necessarily be
very stable!! I think when Tesco's sold a batch of "old" DS608's last
year (I guess they were refurbs) , firmware 0156 (not 0157) was
installed (I think).

0156 was more stable than 0157.

It is possible to switch between the two (assuming they are the two that
are in memory) via the engineering menu. Note that if the older version
is very old (I don't know which version it applies to) you cannot then
switch back to the later version.

But the menu warns you of this when it tells you which version you are
about to change back to.

A bit off topic Alan, on your web page about Teletext, the screen shot which
shows your name also has the name of 'Bob McGregor' at the top of the list,
I knew Bob and can (remember him building that particular Wireless World
Teletext decoder (an awful lot of hard wired 74 TTL ICs IIRC).

I haven't seen or heard of him in well over 20 years, but who knows he may
still be alive and well and contributing to Usenet )



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Ivan wrote:

A bit off topic Alan, on your web page about Teletext, the screen shot
which
shows your name also has the name of 'Bob McGregor' at the top of the
list,
I knew Bob and can (remember him building that particular Wireless World
Teletext decoder (an awful lot of hard wired 74 TTL ICs IIRC).

I haven't seen or heard of him in well over 20 years, but who knows he
may
still be alive and well and contributing to Usenet )

I've had a couple of comments about that shot
http://www.pembers.freeserve.co.uk/Teletext/Oracle-Thanks.jpg from
people who knew the people listed, but never the people themselves.

I can't guarantee that any on the list are still extant, as I myself am
a hologram.


LOL!

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Ivan wrote:
I've compiled a few photos of various bits and pieces here.

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Ivan230542/SetpalPhotos?authkey=35HHNYnzT3g


Many thanks... I'll have a play with mine when its decommisioned... :-)

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Ivan wrote:
I've compiled a few photos of various bits and pieces here.

http://picasaweb.google.co.uk/Ivan230542/SetpalPhotos?authkey=35HHNYnzT3g


Many thanks... I'll have a play with mine when its decommisioned... :-)


Thanks for the response, originally I did have some spec sheets and a lot of
useful information from Steve Farmer at NovaPal.

However having suffered a heart attack 12 months ago I have to say that I
haven't been anywhere near as enthusiastic or as involved with many things
as I once was, consequently I have discarded quite a lot of stuff that I had
accumulated over a prolonged period of time.

A few weeks ago I posted asking for people's experiences about (an intended
purchase) the Humax 9200 PVR which were in the main very positive, and have
to say that now we're used to it me and my misses love it to bits and
certainly wouldn't go back to using a VCR.

Last week whilst channel surfing on the Humax my attention was caught by an
offer on Price Drop TV, it was for a Digifusion FVRT 95 PVR which was
selling for £51.00 (a very basic machine in comparison to the Humax) but I
thought ' what the hell' it has an 80 gigabyte hard drive and I paid more
than that for 160 GB HD less than a couple of years ago.

It duly arrived three days ago, was a piece of cake to set up, has nice
menus and has performed perfectly since, if it works as well until the
guarantee has expired then I'll have no complaints.

Checking user comments on the net seemed to reveal that quite a number of
disillusioned purchasers in times gone by appeared to have suffered from
various power supply problems, which as far as I can gather appeared to be
related to some kind of underrated external unit. However this one out has a
very well made and substantial looking internal unit, so only time will
tell.

My point in mentioning all of this is that when I think that I was
'installing' and selling the Daewoo Freeview receiver for £129.99 when they
first hit the market, compared to how cheap much more sophisticated
equipment can be purchased nowadays, it makes me wonder if it's any longer
worth while even bothering to undo a few screws to replace a fuse which has
expired from my old age!






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