Faceplate Headache

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ntman2000

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My Satellite Setup
Sky+ installed dish
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united kingdom of great britain
Firstly sory if this is the wrong forum to post to but here goes when we moved in we had the sattelie cables running through the wall and a tv point so I replaced the tv point with one of those 4 way (2 Sat 1TV and Radio) faceplates on the back of it all I had was two connection point so I connected the two sat feeds but the TV and radio do not work (Sky+ is fine)
Any ideas please ? - Thanks
 
Again sorry not an expert here bought this as an amature and cannot find any info on this but yes that is what I thought, I put normal aerial cables into the sockets and into the TV and Blueray system (for radio reception but these do not appear to receive a signal (i do not have any testing equipment other than the TV etc)
 
A picture is helpful - especially of the back of the faceplate so's we can see where the cables are going
 
Do you have a power supply unit behind the TV that powers a pre-amp?
I ask as these plates do not have DC pass on the TV side.
 
So how have you fed the tv aerial feed into the faceplate?
 
It may be possible that the system feeding the property isn't correctly wired. Are you in a small block of flats which is fed by a communal TV/sat system by any chance?

Its common with with some IRS systems, mostly Fracarro ones for one set of switches/feeds only to carry satellite signals and not terrestrial TV. The idea is that the switch with the combined sat and terrestrial signal feeds the side of the plate that covers sat1/TV & DAB/FM and the feed with just the sat signal goes to sat 2.

It could be that the two cables are the wrong way round in the plate or that your plate is being fed off the switch with no terrestrial signal, which isn't un-common as when the blocks are cabled a lot of the cable crews ( specifically working for one company i know) don't bother marking the cables so its inevitable that this problem occurs.

I used to do this as a job before i gave it up for my sanity, and it was a problem that came up quite often when i was covering the service calls. Everytime it was in a block that ran Fracarro systems. Theres nothing wrong with Fracarro stuff, it just depends on who wired it up.

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Hi so many helpful questions ok so I will try to get the plate off and take a picture but as I remeber there were only two places that the wires could be attached to. My property is a house so no shared feeds etc as i a flat. No there is no power supply to the faceplate. And lastly that's my point really as there were only two connection points at the back of the plate I assumed (instructions that came with it were not really helpfull) so I used the two satelite cables knowing I needed them both and left the coaxial cable unattached in the metal boxing behind the faceplate - Hope that helps
 
ntman2000 said:
......and left the coaxial cable unattached in the metal boxing behind the faceplate - Hope that helps
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Is that your terrestrial feed? If so that will be why it doesn't work then.
 
ntman2000 said:
Hi so many helpful questions ok so I will try to get the plate off and take a picture but as I remeber there were only two places that the wires could be attached to. My property is a house so no shared feeds etc as i a flat. No there is no power supply to the faceplate. And lastly that's my point really as there were only two connection points at the back of the plate I assumed (instructions that came with it were not really helpfull) so I used the two satelite cables knowing I needed them both and left the coaxial cable unattached in the metal boxing behind the faceplate - Hope that helps
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So the problem appears that you are using a diplexing wallplate but do not have a diplexed signal to input to it (as indicated by the three separate cables in the box). I do not know anyone who supplies faceplates as you require that are not diplexed/triplexed/quadriplexed so would suspect you need two faceplates - one for the TV outlet as previously and a non diplexed dual faceplate for the satellite sockets.
 
Thanks I sort of guessed that I had dropped a clanger there what wwould I need to fit to the dish to give me this diplexed signal or would Ihave to get a pro in to do this ?
 
Or you could get a faceplate that is suitable.

The triax modular range would do it, they do a module with 2 In 2 out Fs and a 1 in 1 out aerial socket, the two should fit side by side in a single plate.
 
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