pingpongpo Posted June 15, 2007 Report Share Posted June 15, 2007 Hi guys, Getting my living room completely re-plastered due to the previous owners cough....ahem...taste. Anyhoooo, he had the Sky+ cables, aerial etc coming straight through a hole in the wall which was uber shite so I purchased one of these bad boys http://www.labgear.co.uk/products.php?ac...p;pname=PSW351T from Screwfix in the hope I could feed all tv cables out of it. Opened up the box and looked at the connections at the back and it only has 3 connections (excluding the phone) One cable entry has Sky2 on it, the other has return on it (I think I know what that is for) and the other has triplexed written on it. I thought I could feed one Sky+ and standard aerial cables into this but it appears not!! Can anyone shed any light on this as the piece of paper that came with it tells me nothing. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rustynuts Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 I think what you have there is the outlet plate for a combined feed (single wire). Not too good with the terminology here, so... We have a tv aerial on the roof, and an fm aerial in the loft. Both cables go to a common point in the loft and are then combined in a special box. Like this. A single aerial cable (used to be TV only till I added the FM aerial) runs down to the lounge in the wall, and there we have a TV / FM splitter outlet which "uncombines" (made up word) the 2 signals and sends them to the TV and hifi respectively. What you've bought is the outlet plate with a couple more outlets on it. To make it work you need all the signals coming down one wire (except for the phone) from a combiner box, so it's probably not going to work for you. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
davidhodgkinson Posted June 16, 2007 Report Share Posted June 16, 2007 Have a look at CPC part number AP01097. It is only a dual sat cable point though, no std TV. The best solution would be to use what you have, with a HDU641S or a SE00365 in the loft. You would require a few cables between the loft and the front room. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gren Posted June 17, 2007 Report Share Posted June 17, 2007 The best way for a Sky cable (or indeed any other) to be fed into your house is exactly the way it had been done by the previous occupant. As long as it's done neat and tidily the best connection is no connection - a wire direct from the dish to your box with no plates etc and no interruptions. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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