Running sky cable HELP?!
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So i am about to get sky fitted to the house ive just moved into. Only issue being its an old barn conversion developement meaning its terrace style so the only wall leading to the outside is the front, the sides and rear share the walls with other conversions. Now my tv is a fair distance from the front, this is dictated by the position where the TV arial points and power points where placed in the room. Now to run a sky cable from the roof down the front into where my existing TV arial cabling runs would mean having to chase a huge amount of the wall out to hide the cable from view and get to the TV. The developer already has done this with normal TV cables and put face plates on the wall to connect from TV to. The arial comes in from the antenna to my boiler room and then is pluged into the cable run to the tele. Could i get the sky cable ran to this point then plug into this and save me chasing out a good 10m of wall?
My explaination isnt very clear! Hope someone can shed some light!?
My explaination isnt very clear! Hope someone can shed some light!?
That rather depends on what cable has already been installed... All coax is not the same.
Easiest way would be to try it, but your installer probably won't be interested as they don't get a lot of money for an install, so will want to move on to the next one sharpish.
Also, if you want Sky+ you need 2 cables....
Easiest way would be to try it, but your installer probably won't be interested as they don't get a lot of money for an install, so will want to move on to the next one sharpish.
Also, if you want Sky+ you need 2 cables....
It is feasible to install the Skybox in the boiler room then run to the TV's from there using your existing cabling. You would connect to the RF output B on the Skybox and use a Magic Eye at the Tv to control it. Downside is no HD, unless you want to spend a few £100s.
Do you have existing TV distribution in the rooms? Do you have a distribution amplifier? If so this will need to have a DC pass for it to work with magic eyes. The Sky guy will explain I'm sure.
Do you have existing TV distribution in the rooms? Do you have a distribution amplifier? If so this will need to have a DC pass for it to work with magic eyes. The Sky guy will explain I'm sure.
How many cables go to the point behind the TV?
If there are two I could diplex one sat feed down with the aerial signal and the second could be dedicated satellite, if there is only one cable I could still get all three signals down using a diplexer, and a stacker / de stacker, though the cabling would need to be good quality screened coax to do this effectively.
The feeds from the dish would need to be run into the main distribution point from the dish, if this is through the loft sky fitters will be reluctant to do it as they are on a very low rate per fit and need to complete an install in about 30 mins and on to the next one, I work on bespoke installations and do whatever needs doing to do the job to the customers satisfaction though of course this is a lot more than Sky will charge.
If there are two I could diplex one sat feed down with the aerial signal and the second could be dedicated satellite, if there is only one cable I could still get all three signals down using a diplexer, and a stacker / de stacker, though the cabling would need to be good quality screened coax to do this effectively.
The feeds from the dish would need to be run into the main distribution point from the dish, if this is through the loft sky fitters will be reluctant to do it as they are on a very low rate per fit and need to complete an install in about 30 mins and on to the next one, I work on bespoke installations and do whatever needs doing to do the job to the customers satisfaction though of course this is a lot more than Sky will charge.
AerialAndy said:
^^This^^ Diplexing/stacking is your answer although if the Sky installer that came to fit a dish after I had installed a distribution at a customers house other day is anything to go by, they don't even know what a diplexer is or how a distribution system works!
True, but they don't have anything to do with them and aren't trained on them.Hehe.
I make a point of meeting the sky installer at the door of a clients house, taking the boxes, signing his paperwork and telling him to bugger off. I then install the systems for my clients because it then gets done the way I and my clients want.
Typical example, £6m apartment in Knightsbridge, client wanted TV on the opposite wall to the terminated socket, but there was a blanking plate on the wall that the TV was going on.
So sky installer stapled two coaxes around the skirting board, in and out of 4 balcony windows and round to the TV unit!! If he had taken the plate off at the actual tv point, he would of found 3 cables there waiting for him!
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I make a point of meeting the sky installer at the door of a clients house, taking the boxes, signing his paperwork and telling him to bugger off. I then install the systems for my clients because it then gets done the way I and my clients want.
Typical example, £6m apartment in Knightsbridge, client wanted TV on the opposite wall to the terminated socket, but there was a blanking plate on the wall that the TV was going on.
So sky installer stapled two coaxes around the skirting board, in and out of 4 balcony windows and round to the TV unit!! If he had taken the plate off at the actual tv point, he would of found 3 cables there waiting for him!
V.
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