Tonight i connected my motorised dish for the first time,to find that no led`s were lighting up on the motor-no power!I have had to extend the old cable by about 10 meters,i used a atenuator to make the join,when i took my dreambox outside and connected it to the motor via a short length of cable the motor got power,my question is can you join 2 pieces of cable together and still get power to the motor or do i need to replace the whole run with one piece?
power to motor problem( joining cable)
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- cjb1971
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Tonight i connected my motorised dish for the first time,to find that no led`s were lighting up on the motor-no power!I have had to extend the old cable by about 10 meters,i used a atenuator to make the join,when i took my dreambox outside and connected it to the motor via a short length of cable the motor got power,my question is can you join 2 pieces of cable together and still get power to the motor or do i need to replace the whole run with one piece?
There is a loss of power mate using the connector!
Far better off for signal strength and all to use one full run of co-ax to the motor!
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No probs mate!
Best of luck ;)
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Just what i thought gona be a dam pain in the arse now though to do that as present cables are hidden i wall.....ill put new length in and hopefully itll work shame the mrs will moan like mad when i get big drill out lol,thanks for the info.
With my mrs... ducktape works wonderfull :)
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attach one of these & pull it through lol
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