Where i live the tv reception is poor. I want to strenghthen the signal using a multi-outlet aerial booster, problem is I only have a lighting circuit in the loft, is it possible to run the booster from this circuit or will i need to run a spur from the floor below?
I fitted a double 13A socket up there for the amp, which has proved useful on occasions.
Perfectly ok - they only take a few watts. Use a FCU with a suitable fuse rather than a plug and socket, though.
You can get antenna amplifiers which take their power feed from the coax. You plug a power supply into the mains and the coax somewhere convenient.
More than adequate current-wise.
Probably terribly not part P or something :-)
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I also fitted a 13 amp socket on a spur from the ring main in the loft. It gets used for the new amplifier, also for other purposes.
I fitted a small 5amp round pin socket in my loft - off the lighting circuit in readiness for an aerial installer coming to fit a new aerial and distribution amplifier. However, he installed one which was powered via the COAX from a power supply box at the TV set end.
You can indeed. But I've not seen multi-outlet ones; they all seem to come with a built in PSU and a mains cable.
I have a four-output masthead unit powered via one of the coax downleads here. Made by Antiference.
Yes - a head amp. But designed to be mounted at the aerial itself? I've not seen a DA like that - although I suppose it's possible. DAs often supply the 'phantom' power for a head amp, though.
Just spur it off the lighting circuit to a 13A socket, label socket something like 3A only and plug in amplifier. Not really compliant etc etc but quick and easy and works.
All those people who say fit a proper fused spur etc etc, why ? I plugged my loft amplifer in 7 years ago and not needed to use the socket for anything else.
Why do you need such power in the loft from the ring main, when ever I have done major work in the loft I have always run an extenstion lead from the mains upstairs for the period of the job (usually just fan and 150W light to work with).
Labgear make a series designed to be installed in inaccessible locations or locations without power and supplied via the downlead.
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