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💬General Category => General Discussion => Topic started by: irv on March 09, 2008, 04:05:16 PM

Title: why did wireless system go down one night and work the next night.
Post by: irv on March 09, 2008, 04:05:16 PM

i have a 2 TM751 transceiver system using 3 codes and a bunch of wireless 3 and 8 button controllers.

one night after a new direct tv box was installed,if that even means anything,  nothing would work and one of the transceivers kept going on and off 3 or 4 times during the night.
i unplugged the bad transceiver and still nothing would work though the other transceiver.
 
a day later it all seems to work.
i pugged the bad transceiver back in and lo and behold it works fine also without the on-off cycling it was doing.

anybody know what happened and how to avoid it in the future.

thanks.

Title: Re: why did wireless system go down one night and work the next night.
Post by: HA Dave on March 09, 2008, 07:50:55 PM

Quote from: irv on March 09, 2008, 04:05:16 PM

one night after a new direct tv box was installed,if that even means anything,  nothing would work and one of the transceivers kept going on and off 3 or 4 times during the night.

I have read of RF interference caused by loose "F" connectors.

Title: Re: why did wireless system go down one night and work the next night.
Post by: irv on March 09, 2008, 08:40:54 PM

f connector feels tight.
it stopped working for no apparent reason and started working again for no apparent reason.
i am wondering if the power ulitilty had a problem with the electricity and that's why the transceiver was going on and off by itself and the rest of the system shut down.

Title: Re: why did wireless system go down one night and work the next night.
Post by: Brian H on March 10, 2008, 06:48:31 AM

Not common but maybe there was some power line noise that came and went.
The on off one may have been confused by noise and was in a strange state. The power off and on later may have done a hard reset on it.