Anyone happen to know how many joins you can do to a Sky cable ?
I need to re-route the cable under the floor to another room, it's already joined in one place (done by the sky installer) and the easiest way to re-route the cable would be to cut it again and have a 2nd join in the one cable.
Should signal etc still be OK with 2 joins ?
Thanks in advance.
You shouldn't have a problem. Since your only other option is to replace the cable anyway - what have you got to lose? Try it and see, If it doesn't work, replace the cable.
*If* you do it properly with the correct connectors, you should be OK, but best advice is to recable from the dish. That way you have the option of going back to the original point too.
Unplug the Sky box before you do anything as it feeds voltage up the co-ax to the LNB on the dish. Extend the cable using CT100 double screened copper on copper co-ax, two F connectors and a coupler. Keep the core of the co-ax well away from the whiskers of braid, or you will cause a short circuit in the feed voltage to the LNB.
If you have made the signal too weak you will get blocking and break-up, and will need to replace the whole cable from dish to box with one length. (This is the ideal solution really.)
Using cheap unscreened co-ax or aluminium screened cable is a bad idea.
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004 09:26:55 -0000, "Happy Hunter" strung together this:
Theoretically, as many as you want. It's the quality, not the quantity! If you do a decent job with the proper connectors then it should be OK. Without knowing what your cabling and connection losses are like at the moment I don't have any idea, try it and see.
The Sky installer could have done a better job by replacing the cable rather than just join as it does degrade the signal. With satellite cable it has to be done very carefully to minimise the signal loss. Probably the easiest way would be to use an F-type barrel connector and attach F-type connectors to each cable end to screw onto it. Example of the barrel connector here -
As many as you want. The more the better in fact. Can only improve the programme quality.
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