I have been building a small (but growing) off-grid solar power system for my home as a bit of an experiment. Part technology geekery, part environmentalist, and part prepper, it has been going well. More details on the system later. One of my first goals was to make sure that our DirecTV system would function without mains power and the first part of that is the dc power required by the dish to operate. If you have DirecTV (I would guess that most other DBS systems are similar) then you probably have one of these that the installer wedged behind your media center out of site.
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