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12-19-2015, 08:58 PM
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Television wiring
Does anybody know if any of the cables in this picture come from the cable TV connection in the bay with the inverter?
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12-19-2015, 08:59 PM
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This is in behind the TV in the entertainment center.
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12-19-2015, 09:45 PM
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On my 2013 390RB there is a switch in the entertainment center. In one position you get over the air (OTA) signal from the roof antenna and in the other position you get cable. The cable hook-up in the inverter compartment goes to that switch.
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12-19-2015, 09:52 PM
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I sure wish the factory would label these types of cables and some of the wiring. It would make life much easier.
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12-19-2015, 09:57 PM
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Get you a 50' cable and a muti-meter.... hook one end up to each cable, 1 at a time, and search for the cable connection your curious about.....you'll also need a male to male connector
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12-19-2015, 10:19 PM
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dogs that looks like a simple spitter, I would say that orange cable is the feed. How many TVs do you have in your Moho?
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12-19-2015, 10:30 PM
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Taking a guess.
The three are going out to TVs. Main cabin, bedroom, outside tv
One coming in is tv antenna, other is outside cable connection.
One way to check, turn on all tv's and disconnect one at a time.
Just a guess.
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12-19-2015, 10:39 PM
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The orange wire on ours is for the satellite dish prewired to the roof. My guess would be the black wire next to the orange would be for the cable connection.
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12-19-2015, 11:01 PM
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Since that splitter only has one 'INPUT' it looks like the White wire feeds from the outside cable connection. But it may also pass through the switch edgewant mentioned above.
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12-20-2015, 01:24 AM
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No switch. 2 tvs. Wired for 1 outside. Winegard trav'ler and Jack tv. Both of those work. There are jacks for satellite prep and one one the amplifier plate that are not hooked up to anything .
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12-20-2015, 07:09 AM
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Hopefully...the white wire is the feed since that is a splitter and the white wire is connected to the input. The rest are outputs!
Now...that being said, you can also use a splitter as a combiner so some of those cables could be inputs as well, but they won't work as well as the actual input. Best idea here is to turn on the TVs and take the cables off one at a time to make sure.
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12-20-2015, 04:45 PM
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I believe there are several inputs on that splitter. I do wish that FR had marked the cable also.
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12-20-2015, 05:52 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil57
I believe there are several inputs on that splitter. I do wish that FR had marked the cable also.
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Phil,
The photo clearly shows the port where the white wire is connected to is the input and marked as such. ALL the others are marked output.
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12-21-2015, 12:06 AM
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Phil,
The photo clearly shows the port where the white wire is connected to is the input and marked as such. ALL the others are marked output.
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Yes it does just like mine does. Except I only have 3 TV's so that's 4 cables 3 for the TVs and one input. The other I assume is for sat so it must also be a input.
As I said I wish they would have marked them.
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12-21-2015, 12:16 AM
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But the input from where? Cable, antenna or satellite?
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12-21-2015, 01:52 AM
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I don't know. We are not in our Moho right now we are in Michigan for Christmas. If I remember correctly on mine I was messing with the cable and unhooked the input and did not loose the signal. I was hooked up to the parks cable tv at the time. I will try it when I get home after Christmas.
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12-21-2015, 08:09 AM
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Just to add one thing, I would doubt any of those are coming directly from the satellite dish. You can not use a splitter between the dish and receiver because the signal will not work. You can however split the signal coming out of the receiver to the TV's.
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12-21-2015, 08:26 AM
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No splitter in sat. in-feed from outside connector to receiver
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12-21-2015, 08:31 AM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil57
Yes it does just like mine does. Except I only have 3 TV's so that's 4 cables 3 for the TVs and one input. The other I assume is for sat so it must also be a input.
As I said I wish they would have marked them.
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I can't say whether the other wire is for a sat or what it is for but please don't continue to assume it's an input to that particular splitter. It will never work. That splitter is designed for one input only.
As has been mentioned many times in this thread, a conventional splitter such as the one shown in the photo will not work between the satellite receiver and the dish. They do make splitters that will pass voltage but this isn't one of them.
Having the wires marked would be a big help. Access to wiring diagrams would be an even bigger help. I'm not sure why FR wants to keep that so secretly guarded.
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12-21-2015, 08:33 AM
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Sat feeds are complicated. DirecTV and Dish use different interfaces between the receiver and the active components in the dish but both power the LNBs through the coax. On DirecTV there are two "bands" that the dish will pick up and the switch between those bands is accomplished by putting two different voltages from the receiver and the dish. A splitter will block those voltages and not allow correct tuning of channels. You can get a multiplexer adapter that will feed two separate cables to the dish, one for low voltage and the other for high. Then you can put multiple receivers into the adaptor at it will automatically route each receiver to the correct band in the dish. But this is really way to complicated for an RV install, not to mention the requirement to have two separate cables from the multiplexer to the dish. Most RV companies only snake a single coax to the roof.
As a result, the cable from the receiver to the dish must be a "home run" i.e. a direct connection with no taps or splitters.
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