Hi guys,
I'm having quite a few issues with a run of coax cable that I started messing around with in order to move a TV. Normally, I'd just tough it out and try to figure it out on my own around but unfortunately it's my girlfrien'ds condo and she'll kill me if she goes without HGTV for a few days.
The original working perfectly situation
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There's 1 cable outlet in the condo, and cable was needed in the bedroom, so Comcast came and routed the cable from the living room all along the walls then through the wall into the bedroom. I'd guess it might be a 30-40 ft run. That worked fine and the final wiring setup for that was a short cable coming out of the living room outlet into a comcast supplied splitter, split to a short cable to the cable box, and the long run to the cable box in the bedroom.
The new situation
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Then we decided to move the TV on the opposite wall. I thought it would be a simple job, cut the long run where we wanted to put the TV and then stick on some connectors and use the splitter from before. I did that and also coupled the original short cable coming out of the wall to the long cable then turned the bedroom TV on and it worked fine. No problem whatsoever.
The 3 issues
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1) The turned the living room TV on at it's new location and the circuit breaker tripped. I determined that the circuit breaker trips only when I put the connector on the length of wire coming out of the original cable outlet. If I just shove that into the TV without a connector it works fine, same with shoving it into the splitter.
So I determined thats fine for now.
2) Later on in the night, I start getting this message on all the cable boxes 'channel should be available shortly' and no picture. Pulling the plug on the cable boxes and then pluggin them back in seems to work fine for a while, sometimes hours, sometimes minutes. But eventually after turning the cable box back on, I'll get that message again.
3) Then the next morning, the cable box in the bedroom no longer turns on. It is completely dead.
The parts I purchased from Radio Shack:
Part Number: 278-304
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...tId=2103648&cp
Part Number: 278-227
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...tId=2103395&cp
Do you guys see any issues with what I did or the parts? The connector specifically says "Only for use on standard antennae systems. Do not use on cable TV...", maybe my mistake was listening to the Radio Shack guy? I dont understand why the connector would make a difference. Couldn't I basically use tape if I wanted?
I'm having quite a few issues with a run of coax cable that I started messing around with in order to move a TV. Normally, I'd just tough it out and try to figure it out on my own around but unfortunately it's my girlfrien'ds condo and she'll kill me if she goes without HGTV for a few days.
The original working perfectly situation
----------------------------------------
There's 1 cable outlet in the condo, and cable was needed in the bedroom, so Comcast came and routed the cable from the living room all along the walls then through the wall into the bedroom. I'd guess it might be a 30-40 ft run. That worked fine and the final wiring setup for that was a short cable coming out of the living room outlet into a comcast supplied splitter, split to a short cable to the cable box, and the long run to the cable box in the bedroom.
The new situation
-----------------
Then we decided to move the TV on the opposite wall. I thought it would be a simple job, cut the long run where we wanted to put the TV and then stick on some connectors and use the splitter from before. I did that and also coupled the original short cable coming out of the wall to the long cable then turned the bedroom TV on and it worked fine. No problem whatsoever.
The 3 issues
------------
1) The turned the living room TV on at it's new location and the circuit breaker tripped. I determined that the circuit breaker trips only when I put the connector on the length of wire coming out of the original cable outlet. If I just shove that into the TV without a connector it works fine, same with shoving it into the splitter.
So I determined thats fine for now.
2) Later on in the night, I start getting this message on all the cable boxes 'channel should be available shortly' and no picture. Pulling the plug on the cable boxes and then pluggin them back in seems to work fine for a while, sometimes hours, sometimes minutes. But eventually after turning the cable box back on, I'll get that message again.
3) Then the next morning, the cable box in the bedroom no longer turns on. It is completely dead.
The parts I purchased from Radio Shack:
Part Number: 278-304
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...tId=2103648&cp
Part Number: 278-227
http://www.radioshack.com/product/in...tId=2103395&cp
Do you guys see any issues with what I did or the parts? The connector specifically says "Only for use on standard antennae systems. Do not use on cable TV...", maybe my mistake was listening to the Radio Shack guy? I dont understand why the connector would make a difference. Couldn't I basically use tape if I wanted?