Recent content by 101michael

Satelliteman, and anyone else who is interested... here are a couple of pictures of my setup so far: The lower double sockets, to the left of the consumer unit, with four F connectors are all the outputs for the rooms of the house, two to each bedroom, and depending on the living area, 2, 4...

ive just come across right angled compression connectors. The problem is that the thomas and betts tool doesnt seem able to compress this type of connector. The only tool i can find that compresses the right angled connector is the Platinum Tool range...

sateliteman... ok i understand BUT: why not connect the say, 20, multiswicthes in a star architecture from their earth post to the main earthing point? so if you remove one switch then the others are not affected? Is this possible? im not an electrician so i have no idea, does this mean all...

*phew* *sigh of relief*, my extended research has served me well....!when my next project comes along, ill make sure to come here and badger everyone on which LNB, multiswitch, dish and aerials to use and in what type of setup and with which cable.... I know, i know, these seem to be pretty...

well thanks everyone for your helpful input... I may invest in that tool, it seems to make what can be quite a tiresome task come about much faster, and it combines voice, data and video which are nowadays pretty much all used in the same setup. It seems to be much cheaper in the states, but...

oh well, should of come here before purchasing my antiference one... as for the future, money no object which brand of multiswitch would you guys recommend and with which LNB?

OK...i sort of think i understand.. but take a look at this _http://www.antiference.tv/isys7-installation-schematic Right, i have the earth bonding and connecting all ins and outs together...but why do that if i can just connect my earth straight to the earth post? Or am i meant to connect...

hm, well im a bit confused now... There is an earth bar at the side of the multiswitch, once all the ins and outs are connected via the earth bonding kit does this need to go through the earth bar before the main earthing, or can i bypass the earth bar and go directly to the earth cable which...

When i purchased my antiference multiswitch i also purchased its earth bonding kit... This included 'quick fit' f type modules which slide onto the ins and outs of the multiswitch connected together with earth wire, im a bit worried that it may slightly degrade signal quality that now i have...

Just installed, not fully, an Antiference 7x20 (that is 7 inputs, 4 sat, 1 UHF, 1 DAB and 1 FM) i will only use the four sat with a quattro and the one UHF, there are other antiference switches which only have the 5 inputs that i required but only provided, i think, 16 outputs, and i need 20...

First up thanks for the advice... After quite a bit of research Ive come across this product, a little overkill but great in what it does , especially if you need to check cat5 etc... What do you think about it? : _http://www.flukenetworks.com/fnet/en-us/products/MicroScanner+2/Overview.htm Is...

Hi, Well we've just finished up wiring the house and i wanted to know which are the best tools required to perform these certain tasks below: 1) First up I would like to be able to pin point from the node zero cupboard where the terminating coaxial cable is coming from, i.e. i have 20 or so...