Zenith DTT901 & Insignia NS-DXA1-APT DTV converter box: Cold Power-Up Problem FIXED

[Ed in Tx]

Originally Posted by dieseljeep

Did you ever notice, if you tap gently on a Zenith or Insignia box, the sound glitches for a split second. Everyone I've owned, from the first one on, did it. Also, turning on or off, a light or another line operated item, on the same circuit does it. No matter, where I use them.
Please report what your findings are!

Mine does that too. Tapping on it, audio drops out, sensitive. Not sure about the powering on-off other things haven't tried it.
I haven't had to replace any caps yet, have one always plugged in out in the garage hooked to a little 9" Sony KV-9PT60.

One feature I really like on these Zenith boxes I haven't found anywhere else, is the memory for each channel's picture mode settings. There are a few channels here that have odd aspect ratio and to set and leave it for the particular channel is handy.

[dieseljeep]

Originally Posted by Ed in Tx

Mine does that too. Tapping on it, audio drops out, sensitive. Not sure about the powering on-off other things haven't tried it.
I haven't had to replace any caps yet, have one always plugged in out in the garage hooked to a little 9" Sony KV-9PT60.

One feature I really like on these Zenith boxes I haven't found anywhere else, is the memory for each channel's picture mode settings. There are a few channels here that have odd aspect ratio and to set and leave it for the particular channel is handy.

Those 9" Sonys, nothing like them!
It's a little cold in my workshop, as I turn down the heat at night. The units probably don't like the temp extremes.

[init4fun]

In mention of testing IR remotes , I stumbled on a pretty cool trick one day while messing around in my workshop . I had a solar cell from one of those outdoor sunlight rechargeable garden lights and got the idea to hook it to a speaker and aim the remote at it . No amplifier , nothing , just the solar cell and a little 2" PM speaker farmed out of a dead transistor radio . Every different button gave a different tone in the speaker and there were variations in both pitch and duration of the tones with the different buttons i'd push . A cool experiment and I kept the solar cell and speaker together as a "quick & dirty" tester to see if a remote is working or not .

[Findm-Keepm]

Originally Posted by init4fun

In mention of testing IR remotes , I stumbled on a pretty cool trick one day while messing around in my workshop . I had a solar cell from one of those outdoor sunlight rechargeable garden lights and got the idea to hook it to a speaker and aim the remote at it . No amplifier , nothing , just the solar cell and a little 2" PM speaker farmed out of a dead transistor radio . Every different button gave a different tone in the speaker and there were variations in both pitch and duration of the tones with the different buttons i'd push . A cool experiment and I kept the solar cell and speaker together as a "quick & dirty" tester to see if a remote is working or not .

That would make for one cool prank - wire it up, and place the cell and speaker in a dark area near a TV for some fun!