Wet LNB

[mirny]

Re: Wet LNB

yes you're right but then it's freeze again
and i'm on the 4th floor and under my both dishes on both side of house is a pavement with quite big traffic.
and when it's a realy big cold then it's freeze very quick.
I remeber when my mate at the end of the year vomit from window
and in the mornig little childern has got a iceslide then
and other thing that not isolated connectors are not happy of that warm water too.

[microchick]

Re: Wet LNB

You will have to wait for a weekday after midnight when there is not much traffic/activity. Look out of the window and if the street is completely clear and you don't see a living being around for miles( I'm sure you will have a good visibility from the 4th floor windows) then a kettle of boiling hot water would do the job. It would just break the ice and will bring the connector's temperature to normal. It will take 2 seconds for the job and the water will take about 4 seconds to reach the ground.

[mirny]

Re: Wet LNB

You will have to wait for a weekday after midnight when there is not much traffic/activity.

under my balcony right there is a entrance to the pub, so lots of people is in there at that moment

[microchick]

Re: Wet LNB

Don't worry mirny. When its a big freeze, there won't be many people around and you will be able to complete the mission. People usually stay in in a big freeze. Its only summer so lots of activity is understandable!

[microchick]

Re: Wet LNB

@mirni: Here is a solution to your problem, LOL

[thecrazybandit]

Re: Wet LNB

would spraying the dish and lnb with a silacon spray stop any build up on snow or may be something like wd 40

[microchick]

Re: Wet LNB

would spraying the dish and lnb with a silacon spray stop any build up on snow or may be something like wd 40

If we use some high quality equipment then the perblem with the wet can be avoided. We pay a little extra for the quality but it pays back and have peace of mind. Toby has mentioned some cheap F connectors which can be bought 3 for a quid but after sometime they get water inside them due to no extra layers inside.

[gcms]

Re: Wet LNB

up to some extent sparying the dish with the silicon spary protect from the snow and signals but not fully protrctd as mention by the microchick if we used some highly quality equipment it will be better than the everyday thinking about the snow on dish and lnb. LOL there is a saying in my native language which mean the cheap buyer is always weaping and and the expensive buyer is weaping once at the time of making payment .

[findeciclo]

Re: Wet LNB

Really snow and rain, specially snow, are very difficult to avoid in order to have a good signal reception.
Rainy is more easy to solve with a higher sat dish diameter and a low noise rate lnb. (Inverto LNB is usally a very good option).
But snowy is very difficult to avoid, if it is possible we can make a little roof over the dish in order to avoid direct snow on the parabolic dish. Another solution is to install our within a balcony, or even after the window though probably lose signal, but better to have a lower signal ratio than nothing.
I do not think much silicone spray or similar, because the snow amount is very difficult to stop.
Maybe the option to protect the lnb with waterproofing spray is a good option to avoid damaging the device, but nothing more.

Our dear friend, Besit, probably has found a cheap and really functionally solution to this problem with his plastic bottles.

Best regards.

[microchick]

Re: Wet LNB

The snow doesn't stay that longer. It usually clears of in few hours unless its a big freez like last year or the year before when the temperature dropped to -21 and everything was frozen. No one would go out on the roof in that snow to sort their dish out due to health and safety reasons. They could be just better with freeview or only sly for few hours.
The rain problems can be solved with a bigger dish!

[gcms]

Re: Wet LNB

microchick by installing the bigger dish we can silve the problem of low signals in the rain but the bigger dish is not the solution low signals due to snow, Installing bigger dish is also dangerous in the wind with the speed of 100 miles per hour

[findeciclo]

Re: Wet LNB

microchick by installing the bigger dish we can silve the problem of low signals in the rain but the bigger dish is not the solution low signals due to snow, Installing bigger dish is also dangerous in the wind with the speed of 100 miles per hour

I think when we talk about larger diameter parabolic, we are referring to dishes that are properly installed, with all the necessary guarantees.
Best regards.

[easydigital]

Re: Wet LNB

I have tried the covers and in winter it fill up with snow, were I live the dish mounted on a balcony so when it rains it is easy for me to go out clean off the rain no big problem.

[mahrkpat]

Re: Wet LNB

Members interested in this thread may find a thread started by findeciclo of
interest as well http://www.satlover.eu/forum/install...-sat-dish.html

[Satphoenix]

Re: Wet LNB

I have tried the covers and in winter it fill up with snow, were I live the dish mounted on a balcony so when it rains it is easy for me to go out clean off the rain no big problem.

My dish/lnb is free in rain and snow with no problem. Normal lnbs are defenitly waterproof or the are scrab.

Last year even my diseqc switches were lying in rain and snow.
Again no problem and no significant loss of signal.
Only the f-plugs may cause a problem with corrosion or leakage of electricity.