shorting battery

[corey]

i have read about shorting the battery to reset box do you take out battery or leave it in also is it correct to connect/touch the + and - thanks

 

[draindet]

Depens on what box your talking about, if the battery is a small round silver one that can be removed easily then you will probably fing it has a red jumper next to it which you just remove, if it is a large Varta battery the yes you just touch both ends at the same time with a paperclip or piece of wire for 20-30 seconds and that will have the same effect as removing it.

 

[draindet]

Sorry forgot this was the sammy section just ignore the first part of my answer.

 

[corey]

thanks for that draindet

 

[corey]

also draindet just aquired two sammys one from poole dorset and one from fareham will i have much of a job with the net id im in pure davic if i do the battery thing will it find it auto cheers

 

[draindet]

Yes mate if you are pure n*l then the sammys will find their own net id but you will need to set the frequency and pin in the engineers menu before you connect them to the feed.

 

[corey]

thanks

pleased about that only done a 4010 before hoping to get the bk and ird off the card can the ird be obtained in the engineers menu or on a sticker on the scart like the pace draindet

 

[draindet]

Yes mate in the em but not always on a sticker, but you will have to convert the nagra serial code using windows calculator.

 

[owengrey]

you can get your ird from the sticker underneath the box, the number starts with 104. enter the number into a calculater and press hex and viola! you have your number, by the way ird starts with 3E

 

[Donnie Darko]

pleased about that only done a 4010 before hoping to get the bk and ird off the card can the ird be obtained in the engineers menu or on a sticker on the scart like the pace draindet

jtag it to make sure wrt bk

 

[corey]

thanks for the info lads

 

[26 may 1999]

I know this is a daft question but you short the battery with the power off right?

 

[bammy]

A couple of points for you:

- Yes you short the battery with the power off, two or three seconds should do it, if you short it for too long you risk damaging the battery.

- A sammy will set its own netid in Langley (pure NTL) areas ONLY if it has Langley firmware installed. Your Poole box will be Bromley (exC&W), and I'm pretty sure the Fareham one will be too. You can check this by looking at the top of the last page in the engineers menu - the firmware version will be something like 3_2Lxxxx (Langley) or 3_2B (Bromley). This is not a problem, it just means you have to set the netid manually (either via jtag or funcard). As soon as the box is connected it will then take a Langley update and from that point on it will behave as a Langley box (e.g. if you reset the netid again, it should subsequently auto-detect).

 

[bammy]

D'oh - just noticed the dates on the OP, I guess the bit about Langley / Bromley boxes is a bit late