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Attenuator blows up 2 Freesat boxes
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<blockquote data-quote="joddle" data-source="post: 1009220" data-attributes="member: 247983"><p>Agggg - should have gone to Specsavers - I did an inch by inch inspection of the this morning of the whole feed and found a small section only an inch or so where the plastic has perished and exposed the braiding - It seems after all that water was the most likely cause of all the failures as the evening before it failed we had a pretty heavy rainstorm - and thinking back, the last time it failed was also just after heavy rain. Should have looked closer then!!! . Its pretty amazing that 99% of the cable looks fine and the plastic seems perfect - however on this one little area it has failed pretty radically. Thinking more about it I realised that that particular feed was using cable installed for 2d and well before the rest of the system so could be 12 or more years old.</p><p></p><p>Well that's the job for the weekend sorted - a new cable albeit I am not going to remove the final 2m of cable which is buried in the wall but use an f plug connector as it will be well under cover and away from damp and direct sunlight. With my old 2d 2.4 dish here in Valencia I am not expecting any reception issues due to a slightly degraded signal from the joint. Thanks everyone for your suggestions and yet again Woborny was absolutely correct.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="joddle, post: 1009220, member: 247983"] Agggg - should have gone to Specsavers - I did an inch by inch inspection of the this morning of the whole feed and found a small section only an inch or so where the plastic has perished and exposed the braiding - It seems after all that water was the most likely cause of all the failures as the evening before it failed we had a pretty heavy rainstorm - and thinking back, the last time it failed was also just after heavy rain. Should have looked closer then!!! . Its pretty amazing that 99% of the cable looks fine and the plastic seems perfect - however on this one little area it has failed pretty radically. Thinking more about it I realised that that particular feed was using cable installed for 2d and well before the rest of the system so could be 12 or more years old. Well that's the job for the weekend sorted - a new cable albeit I am not going to remove the final 2m of cable which is buried in the wall but use an f plug connector as it will be well under cover and away from damp and direct sunlight. With my old 2d 2.4 dish here in Valencia I am not expecting any reception issues due to a slightly degraded signal from the joint. Thanks everyone for your suggestions and yet again Woborny was absolutely correct. [/QUOTE]
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