Please can anyone help with a loss of signal to my daughters TVs? I'm not at her house but she's sent me pics of the kit. In the loft is a downlead into a SAC AE5035 which has 3 outputs to two bedroom tvs and a lounge tv. The tv in the lounge has a power unit adjacent. Apparently the power unit has a lit up power on indicator. I'm going to drive over at the weekend but it would be a great help if I had an idea what common problems these things suffer.
Given the very strong winds recently - First question first is the external aerial still physically there?
Obvious test is run a pass through connector link for a single TV (and that is a way she might get the main set going again).
If you have one take along a simple set top antenna or failing that a wire coat hanger!
My satellite dish failed in last nights storm and the TDTV was also barely watchable because of storm disturbance. The replacement mast at Bilsdale wasn't coping well with being lashed by the gales at all.
The cooking programme was hilarious with talking head outlines being repainted with chopped red peppers as iframes got dropped.
Greg wotsit looked like an Ood at one point. Most off putting.
All TVs off? Take a voltmeter to check for 12VDC at the lounge signal output/power input of the amp. Take a line connector (belling or f as appropriate) so you can connect the aerial direct to one of the downleads.
Most times these faults are customer error.
Bill
I'm guessing though that the aerial itself might have been damaged in the storms. Really annoying when you get near Christmas, most things see it as a signal to pack up I often find.
Brian
So I wonder if the aerial is in the loft or on the roof.
Bill
Sorry, I should have said the aerial is in the loft. Things stopped working when daughter opened the loft hatch to stow some stuff near the hatch. The aerial and splitter unit is a couple of metres away from the hatch so unlikely to have been affected. I initially thought the installer might have picked up a mains feed from a ceiling rose by the hatch but if it's fed 12 volts via the coax from downstairs I guess that's not the case. When I get there I'll check for 12 volts on the cable from downstairs and possibly loose connections from the aerial. If the splitter amp is defective I understand replacement units aren't expensive. What's a decent unit to replace it with?
The cable may have been pulled out of the splitter when objects were put in the loft - assuming that the connections are belling lee type rather than F connections.
Like I said it's usually a 'customer faulty' call. If they're 'f' types the wire might have got pulled out of one.
Bill
Update i finally managed a brief visit and access to the loft where the splitter amplifier is located. No power arriving up the coax from downstairs. Checking the downstairs unit and 12 volts setting off up the coax but only as far as the wall plate socket. Couldn't get at it due to Christmas tree, decorations and various other gubbins. I'm now waiting for my daughter to shift various items to enable access to undo the socket plate and hope there's a bad connection behind it. If not there's a break in the cable that the builders installed and I'm unsure if it's in conduit or directly plastered in. If it's plastered in I'll have to get a long ladder to site and run a replacement cable up the wall outside. Fingers crossed.
You'll be *really* lucky if the original builder had a) used decent coax and b) conduit (for tv coax) :-(
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