05-06-2015, 09:37 PM
Never heard of that brand 
The usual problems with these sorts of products are capacitors in the power supply - which you've done. But what about the rest of it? Internally there will be other regulators which might have bad caps... Be especially suspicious of switching regulators as they generally demand more of their capacitors.
And physical damage to the UHF input socket or the PCB in the front end can happen.
Possibly hot-melt glue that has gone conductive? Or bad lead-free soldering?
But other than those suggestions, it's hard to be optimistic. If it comes to it, set top boxes are very cheap - probably less than a tenner - and although less convenient, it's something to get him up and running again.
The usual problems with these sorts of products are capacitors in the power supply - which you've done. But what about the rest of it? Internally there will be other regulators which might have bad caps... Be especially suspicious of switching regulators as they generally demand more of their capacitors.
And physical damage to the UHF input socket or the PCB in the front end can happen.
Possibly hot-melt glue that has gone conductive? Or bad lead-free soldering?
But other than those suggestions, it's hard to be optimistic. If it comes to it, set top boxes are very cheap - probably less than a tenner - and although less convenient, it's something to get him up and running again.
