Johannes Stezenbach wrote: > On Sat, Dec 10, 2005, Oliver Endriss wrote: > > Reinhard Nissl wrote: > > > Yes, I read something like that in the VDR ML. But if VDR repeats the > > > sequence on it's own, it is more tolerant to connecting the antenna > > > cable at run time (at least in the case of DVB-S with a DiSEqC > > ^^^^^^^^^^^ > > You should not do that. It might kill the LNBP chip on your card. > > This is the first time I ever hear that. Where do you have > this information from? > (If it were true then manufacturers would have to do a lot of > warranty repairs because of it, thus my doubts.) Well, the LNBP1x series has overcurrent protection, but no overvoltage protection... :-( There are many threads at vdr-portal about broken cards with this defect. You can sometimes buy these cards at eb** for a low price. That's where I got most of my hardware from. :-) Note that this issue has been fixed in the LNBP21. It has overvoltage protection. So recent card designs should be more robust. Oliver -- -------------------------------------------------------- VDR Remote Plugin available at http://www.escape-edv.de/endriss/vdr/ --------------------------------------------------------
