Home Automation - voltage on cable tv line
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dantil
09-20-02, 07:24 PM
Hey folks, here's one for ya.
I have digital cable at my house as well as internet access via cable modem. Recently my internet access went down (lost block sync). (But not my cable tv service) The tech guy from the cable company discovered that a splitter went bad and attributed it to an appreciable amount of voltage on the cable line (I could clearly feel it when he had me hold one line and touch another). I do have an amplifier installed on the cable line upstream from where the splitter is (the cable guys installed that for me a while ago) and wonder if this is the sourse of the voltage and if so how much it too much to blow out a splitter - which strangely didn't affect the cable tv signal.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Dave
I have digital cable at my house as well as internet access via cable modem. Recently my internet access went down (lost block sync). (But not my cable tv service) The tech guy from the cable company discovered that a splitter went bad and attributed it to an appreciable amount of voltage on the cable line (I could clearly feel it when he had me hold one line and touch another). I do have an amplifier installed on the cable line upstream from where the splitter is (the cable guys installed that for me a while ago) and wonder if this is the sourse of the voltage and if so how much it too much to blow out a splitter - which strangely didn't affect the cable tv signal.
Any thoughts?
Thanks
Dave