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    Timeout for tuner lock

    Hi all
    Had my Technomate Nano-3T for approximately 3 weeks now , have set everything up as per the vix guide. I set the ABM
    to automatically scan at 02.00 in the morning, all was well for the first week but now I am getting the message Timeout for tuner lock, I get this message on a manual scan also. Any thoughts or help would be appreciated.

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    Try swapping your sat cables around and doing a manual scan to rule out a problem with your cable connections.

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    Use satfinder on last tuner and make sure it is tuning 11778.
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    Hi Huevos
    Have tried satfinder on transponder b on 11778 and no it finds no channels will try swapping cables as suggested bybusterroo.

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    What is the fix if it is not tuning 11778.

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    Where are you located?

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    Quote Originally Posted by abu baniaz View Post
    Where are you located?
    That transponder is on PE1 so would be receivable by anyone in western Europe.
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    In which case...

    Quote Originally Posted by bigcoops View Post
    What is the fix if it is not tuning 11778.
    Check for alignment, cabling or lnb fault

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    I am located in East Yorkshire

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    That frequncy is what Sky recivers tune to. If you switched on an official receiver which has been in the shed for five years, it will get data from that transponder. This is why it was used.

    There is a hardware issue you need to rectify. To satisfy yourself that this is the case, perform a conventional scan. You should receive over 900 channels. If you receiver lower than this amount, it will confirm the hardware issue.

    Could be any of following:
    Dish moved
    LNB failed
    Damaged cabling
    F-plug worked loose
    Loose connection

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    If it's at all relevant I have a sky receiver upstairs running off the same lnb with no problems. Just done a service scan and it returned a total of 955 channels, is that about right.

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    Each port on LNb is indpendent, as you have received 955, that is fine.

    Can you describe the cabling connected to receiver please? In terms of how many cables in total from dish/lnb. Which port are/is the cable connected to?

    What is each tuner configured as? (ignore the third one for now)
    Did you select automatic when setting your tuner?

    Thanks

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    2 cables from lnb/dish one to port/tunerA and one to port/tuner B on receiver

    Tuner A ( DVB-S2) set as single Sats: 28.2E Eutelsat 28A & Astra 2A/2E/2F

    Tuner B is configured the same as Tuner A as it is a fixed dish

    I did a manual scan of 11778 on tuner A 10 minutes ago and it returned 9 channels.

    Then I did a scan in ABM and got the same timeout for tuner lock message.

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    how is the sky receiver connected into the satellite, assume different cable to lnb?
    Have you tried moving your e2 box and connecting it up to the cable the sky box is using then running the scan?

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    Can you do a manual scan of 11778 using tuner B please and report back if you get the nine channels. Reason for asking you to do this is that ABM uses the last free tuner. Unless you have changed anything, you would be occupying tuner A.

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