buying v+duo

[meggiedude]

he was talking about possible price for the new Duo2 and not the current Duo LOL, And ?329 from that site is extortionate

Not to worry - its out of stock.

Must have been flying off the shelves

[mtv1]

sorry must read some more

[septicsmurf]

Your Clone is at least trying to drive the motor i have seen some that wont drive them at all, There are a few possible solutions for this.

1. Buy another and hope you get a good one Duo Clone PSU from China.

2. when changing satellites does the problem occur when changing to sweep a large ARC like say go from 28.2? east to 30.0? west if so try going to each individual satellites or try just 2 at a time instead of one big ARC sweep

3. change from USALS to Diseqc 1.2 mode and use the advanced mode in the service searching and store each satellite individually.


I think most of the problems stem from people doing large ARC sweeps that puts added pressure on the PSU as well as switching from a Vertical TP 13v to a Horizontal TP 18v, you could try if your current channel is a V TP then choose another V TP on a different sat and see if that helps, Then at least the psu is not only trying to drive the motor but also do the TP switching as well.

worth a try

This is my second clone. Managed to get the seller to send me out a version 2 sent out to replace my version 1 when I first had problems driving the motor.
Initially is was a lot better but slowly getting worse again
I don't really do big arc sweeps as I mainly watch between 0.8w and 28.2e.
I've also tried the vertical/horizontal transponder idea but that didn't help.
I have found vix 2.3 pre kernal 133 is slightly better with vix 2.4 being the worst.
I know it's not my motor as the installer had a banged up old technomate that drove it fine.
I haven't tried the diseqc route yet due to a severe lack of time and know-how.
Just biding my time till the duo2 comes out then i'll decide what to get as a replacement.
If I knew you were selling your clone I might have had it off you.

[septicsmurf]

Not to worry - its out of stock.

Must have been flying off the shelves

Why not go for the ultimo from wos then?

[meggiedude]

Why not go for the ultimo from wos then?

Sorry you lost me there m8

Ultimo was not on my hit list, cheap (relatively speaking) though it is. Might be ?399, but that's outside my price bracket.
Was between Uno or discounted Duo for me, and as Digicon says in a moment of inexplicable madness I ignored my own advice.

EDIT - my reference to being Out of stock btw was to that website MTV1 posted, and it was my clearly pathetic attempt at humour.

[digicon]

This is my second clone. Managed to get the seller to send me out a version 2 sent out to replace my version 1 when I first had problems driving the motor.
Initially is was a lot better but slowly getting worse again
I don't really do big arc sweeps as I mainly watch between 0.8w and 28.2e.
I've also tried the vertical/horizontal transponder idea but that didn't help.
I have found vix 2.3 pre kernal 133 is slightly better with vix 2.4 being the worst.
I know it's not my motor as the installer had a banged up old technomate that drove it fine.
I haven't tried the diseqc route yet due to a severe lack of time and know-how.
Just biding my time till the duo2 comes out then i'll decide what to get as a replacement.
If I knew you were selling your clone I might have had it off you.

Sounds like a definite PSU problem then, sold my clone months back sorry i only got it to see what it was like, Receivers dont last long in my household always onto the newer and better version LOL

[meggiedude]

Sounds like a definite PSU problem then, sold my clone months back sorry i only got it to see what it was like, Receivers dont last long in my household always onto the newer and better version LOL

Ah, got to love those Early Adopters. Always there to troubleshoot the first derivatives at a premuim price, so they work fine and dandy when the rest of us pick them up.


Only teasing....

[septicsmurf]

It's seems we both had pathetic attempts at humour then
I had a smillie attached but it somehow disappeared.
Let's try again.


There the bugger is!

[septicsmurf]

I know it's a long shot. But do you reckon an original psu would work in a clone?

[digicon]

I know it's a long shot. But do you reckon an original psu would work in a clone?

I dont see why not i see Goldwafers have them for sale so if your willing to pay the extra over a clone PSU then go for it, Unless you have a spare already.

[septicsmurf]

I was just thinking of a cheapish fix for my clone psu problem.
Using an original psu should sort it right?

[tonycarter]

Hi All,
I'm looking to buy a Vu+ Duo and I have found a germany site who are selling them for 289 euro & 10 euro delivery converted its ?235 delivered plus 2% payment via paypal. I have emailed him to check its not a clone and his reply was 'We only sell Vu+ originals'. What does anybody think, is it to cheap to be an Original Duo ?

[digicon]

Hi All,
I'm looking to buy a Vu+ Duo and I have found a germany site who are selling them for 289 euro & 10 euro delivery converted its ?235 delivered plus 2% payment via paypal. I have emailed him to check its not a clone and his reply was 'We only sell Vu+ originals'. What does anybody think, is it to cheap to be an Original Duo ?

Thats a good price and probably an original as well, i priced one from an online German site and it came to delivered to UK for around ?248 so your price is very good.

[septicsmurf]

This is my second clone. Managed to get the seller to send me out a version 2 sent out to replace my version 1 when I first had problems driving the motor.
Initially is was a lot better but slowly getting worse again
I don't really do big arc sweeps as I mainly watch between 0.8w and 28.2e.
I've also tried the vertical/horizontal transponder idea but that didn't help.
I have found vix 2.3 pre kernal 133 is slightly better with vix 2.4 being the worst.
I know it's not my motor as the installer had a banged up old technomate that drove it fine.
I haven't tried the diseqc route yet due to a severe lack of time and know-how.
Just biding my time till the duo2 comes out then i'll decide what to get as a replacement.
If I knew you were selling your clone I might have had it off you.

Well I don't believe this.
Yeterday I found an old flash drive, so decided to stick it in my clone duo to use for epg.
Stuck it in no problems, but it also seems to have cured some of my power supply issues.
The duo now seems to have the juice to move the motor more times than not.
It's gone from working 20% of the time to 90% of the time.
Well chuffed.
I guess it's because the hard drive isn't working all the time now so has the power to move the motor?

[john107]

my VU+DUO German order

Hi all, I've just decided to bite the bullet and ordered a VU+DUO and a quad lnb from a very helpful sat shop in Germany.Here's the linky if anyone wants to do the same.

VU+ HDTV Satelliten, Kabel und DVB-T Receiver

at the moment they are doing them with 36 months warranty which is priced on Ebay at around ?30 and the quad lnb comes with a 5 year warranty. Inclusive of UPS,taxes,and exchange fee it all came to a little over ?277 and for the extra warranty I consider it worth a few days wait.Hope this helps someone......Oh btw I paid with Paypal as I didn't want any problems with credit card fees etc..although Paypal charge something prolly......