SKY HD Box Repairs

[scullion]

I am starting to repair Sky HD, Sky + and Standard Sky boxes for a local sky installer.

Can anyone point me in the direction of a good wholesaler for Capacitors, as this is mainly what goes wrong with the boxes (capacitors bust/leak).

Any information from others doing this would be good.

Cheers

[kracken]

what size / type capacitors and how many u want ?

aluminium / ceramic / polyester / polypropylene / polystyrene / tantalum ?

axial / radial / screw / tag / snapfit / smd ?

when u say "wholesaler" do you mean 100+ / 500+ / 1000+ ?

[scullion]

These are the capacitors for the Thomson Sky HD box. However I am not exactly sure if the other boxes such as Amstrad, Samsung etc have the same components (they should have because some of these boxes come out of the same factory, with same PCB/Circuit with a different casing):

C14 - 100µF 400v
C21 - 10uF 50v
C20 - 47µF 50v
C71 - 47µF 50v
C81 - 47µF 50v
C33 - 100µF 25v
C70 - 100µF 50v
C52 - 470µF 16v
C42 - 470µF 25v
C43 - 470µF 25v
C61 - 470µF 25v
C80 - 470µF 25v
C60 - 470µF 35v
C41 - 1200µF 16v
C51 - 1200µF 16v

Do you do any of this type of work yourself?
Do you know where I can get decent prices for such components?

My quantities wouldn't quite be at that level yet
cheers

[4me2]

Invest in a set of these first

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/Sky-box-Thomso...item2c55f5c230

Check what the ratings are then check out places like RS components etc.

If I'm not mistaken it's the Thomson HD boxes that fail a lot.

Also try Satcure as they do a lot of ready kits.

http://www.satcure.com/accs/page12.htm

[scullion]

Aye i've been on those.

I've bought a kit off ebay there a while ago.

But I kinda thought these types of capacitors would cost around £0.10 each.

The kits are around £10 for 15 capacitors = 66p each

[kracken]

you have pm

[Twincharge]

I use RS Components myself, some caps like the 400v 100uf can cost £3.00 from there. Where are people going for their cheap caps?

[Percy Sugden]

Been repairing Sky boxes right back to the days of the Amstrad DRX100's

I use Panasonic caps from Farnell. Not the cheapest but superb quality and you'll never get a comeback.