Latest 2700/2800 dish to bell tsop?

[longfta]

I have 3900 dish and would like to convert to BEV and I beleived that 2700/2800 TSOP bev is compatible. I have no luck finding the latest TSOP. Therefore, please point me or let me know where to find the latest 2700/2800 dish to bev TSOP.

Thanks,

[JT]

Bell does not officially support the model 3900. You can alter the tsop and make it work even though it wasn't really meant to be. Check out the download section for the dual boot 3900 and other ways to modify your 3900 for Bell. What you do is essentially turn your one 3900 into 4 2800's. If my understanding is correct, the firmware will not update on its own. You will have to do it manually, but it can be done. The 2800 and like models have 512k tsop while the 3900 has a 2Mb tsop.

[JShin]

I believe there is a Flash Bin in the downloads area for this or you can make your own. You have to stack 4 individual 2700 bins together into 1 big file because just flashing 1 to the 3900 is too small. You need to use DOS commands to combine them though. Pretty simple to do.

[longfta]

I have successfully convert 3900 to bev 2700. However, I would like to convert dual boot dish and bev.

[Fro66er]

Heres how to do just that, worked just fine for me:

This project converts a dish model 3900 to a dual boot 2700 for
dish and bev with the same receiver, with a toggle switch to select
the provider you want.
I assume you already have a dish pointed at bev and another pointed
at dishnetwork. Good soldering skills, a sharp xacto knife, and
the ability to use DOS commands are required.
You will need a dish 2700 tsop and bev 2700c tsop, both with the same
build and bootstrap rev; (12AB or 12BB).
Edit the dish file with flashedit 2.0a.2, put in your ird#, boxkeys,
fix crc. Nothing else. Save as a personal dump. Do the same with the
bev bin. Also save a virgin eeprom with the 2700 build,ending in "D"
all capital letters.
Copy the dish bin to a directory on the hd, name the file 1.bin.
Copy the bev bin as 2.bin to the same directory.
Get into a DOS shell and change to the directory where you copied
the files. In that directory,type:
copy/ b 1.bin+1.bin+2.bin+2.bin dual.bin
Dual.bin will be the 2meg file that is 1/2 dish and 1/2 bev.
Backup and full erase your tsop as a model 3900.
Program the tsop with the dual.bin file.
Exit jkeys, run jkeys again. The model should show 2700 and your
other info should be correct. Program the eeprom with the 2700
virgin you made. Test the receiver to make sure it is working good
as a bev 2700c.
Pin 9 of the tsop goes to the right pad of R216 then on to a feedthru.
You have to cut the trace between the pad and feedthru, I do it about
1/8" to the right of the pad. Then solder a wire from the right pad of
R216 to the center pole of a dpst toggle switch. Solder a 1k resistor
the bottom pole of the switch and run a wire from that to ground.
Solder a #30awg wire into the feedthru where that trace used to go.
That wire goes to the last pole on the switch. One position of the switch
should be the normal connection from pad to feedthru, the other position
should ground pin 9 thru the 1k resistors. Grounded, the receiver uses the
1st 1/2 of the tsop; the other position uses the last 1/2 of the tsop.
If you added 2 dish bins then 2 bev bins, grounding pin9 will give
you a dish 2700,ungrounded will be a bev 2700c.
Pull the ac before you flick the switch.
When you switch back and forth between providers, you have to redo the
checkswitch test. If done correctly, the receiver will update in the
stream for both dish and bev.

If you follow the instructions, you'll have a dual-boot IRD. Just remember to unplug the IRD before switching between providers.

Good luck

[longfta]

Thanks,

I'll give it a try.

[JShin]

Hi
I was wondering if I used this method would it convert my 3900 to Bev only and not have to modify the board itself. I only want to use BEV. Would any Bev tsop bin for 2700 work??
I have spftware version P230CLJA on it now. Would any 2700 bin work.

Thanx
gigabyte

You will need to combine 4 individual Bell 2700 flash images into one 2meg file because just 1 is too small. You can make your own or there are a couple in the TSOP Bank.