duo clone psu replacements any good?

[gsmtech]

A percentage of the money you pay for an original duo goes towards a worthwhile charity :-), where does the cash go if you have bought a clone ?
Anyway as a Vu Fanboy, we are just going over the same old ground yet again, in life we have have lovers & haters :-)

With the 100 quid you've saved by being a clone your free to donate to a charity of your choice.

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[ekkostar]

There's nothing special about the duo over a dm800se other than twin tuners. If there was such a product as a twin tuner dm800se or a dm7020hd clone I would much rather have one of these over a duo.
Now if the clone teams are producing and selling 800se clones at 140 and making profit a duo is not much more of a challenge, probably easier as the tuners are soldered directly to the board so they can be done by robot , they don't have to bother with sim cards etc. If SIM 2 team had decided to produce a duo clone you would have probably seen a higher quality product and a bit of a price war.

Both Dream and Vu are at the top of the tree. At present, to name but a few, I have in my set up 2 x Ultimos, 1x Duo, 2 x DM800, 1 x DM800HDSE. All originals with each having it's virtues and downsides. For me, the Duo edges it over the HDSE being a twin tuner, responsive, solid substantive machine. I still love the HDSE though and can see why many prefer that instead.

As I say the cloners have a little bit more leeway with the Dream machines as they can spend on the additional quality of components and recoup it all at the end. The Dream receivers have been cloned for longer than the VU's.

Recently I also acquired a used clone DM8000 (Ferrari) as I was intrigued to see what the quality was like. The machine did not work. I isolated the problem to grounding problems and poor assembly and managed to bring it back to life. It works with patched images and if I simply had a limited requriement from it, it would be adequate in some regards. However, it falls short in a number of areas, that a novice would not discover until later on.

The PSU used was actually not too dissimilar to the ones used in VU clones. Both are Ferrari PSU's. The Panasonic PSU board itself was of decent quality but the components used on it were fake. Caps that were rated were nowhere near those levels printed on them.

So for the OP or anyone considering another ?25. If truth be told you will probably be buying a PSU loaded with Caps rated at 105degs but will likely pop at anything remotely near 85 degs. If you do get it, stick a strong fan on the machine and keep it well ventilated.

In the pursuit of cutting costs the cloners have not only cloned the original machines, you've then got a sub-industry cloning right down to individual component levels.

It really is a joke.