Akura set top box

[barry wilkins]

My digi box stopped working some months ago ,the box did not work with the handset . I put it aside to look at ,so at xmas I checked the handset with my camcorder ,it was working OK.
Time to investigate , out puts of the power supply were
21 V
5.8V (6V)
2.4V (4V)
quick check showed 2 mF caps with high esr,s ,replacing these fixed the box
2 negative supplies were shown on the power supply ,but there no components fitted.

Barry Wilkins

[tom66]

Re: Akura set top box

Thank you for posting this information.

It is a shame set-top box manufacturers use poor capacitors, a lot of these boxes were given over to elderly/disabled people for the switchover (for free), and are now dying. Why there was no minimum 5 or 10 year warranty on them baffles me.