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post #1 of 4
Thread Starter 
I am distributing composite video via intelix baluns.
AVO-SVA2-WP-F
and a
AVO-SVA2-F

When I first hooked everything up, the picture was fine but now it is bearly viewable. It has a scolling line and loses color etc. So I decided to troubleshoot the problem. I thought one or both of the baluns are bad. I have two working ones, so I switched out the baluns. The picture did not change. Then I thought, the wire might be bad, (I ran an extra wire) so I switched wires with the same horrible result.

So I decided to grab another TV (cheap 27 inch sylvania LCD). I hooked up the sylvania LCD to the old balun setup (the one that produced such a horrible picture on the other TV). Perfect Picture no problem. So I bet you are thinking, he has a bad TV. Not so fast.

I go back to the old TV (Sony 32 inch WEGA LCD, not sure on model)and hook it up to the cable box with a short composite cable. Perfect Picture.

I am frustrated and running out of ideas. Does anyone have any ideas??? Have you ever bumped into this kind of issue before??

Thanks in advance for helping a frustrated person out.
post #2 of 4
It looks like the older wega LCD doesn't like the signal via the
baluns. I've seen similar issues where one TV and one balun
type (in my case hdmi) were incompatible. In my case I could
do your experiment 4 times and get 3 different results. It could
be the baluns boost the signal and noise and the one tv can't
handle the noise, but I'm not an electrical engineer.
post #3 of 4
Quote:


It could
be the baluns boost the signal and noise

It's a passive device, it can't amplify anything. It will introduce insertion loss, and group delay.
post #4 of 4
Thread Starter 
It is just weird that one tv seems perfectly fine but the other has a unviewable picture. I there anything that can be done. I know the obvious (get rid of the baluns) but that is not something I really want to do.
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