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Hi All, hope this is just a quick one.
Is splitting an ariel and/or sky cable with a small junction box sensible or daft?
Just chased in my ariel and sky cables down one side of our chimney breast in the lounge, had the room replasteed and redecorated. Now the missus has decided we want the telly on the other side of the chimney breast.
This isn't too bad as that side just happens to back onto a built in wardrobe in the bedroom (we're in a bungalow) so I can split the cable in the loft, leave the existing sockets in place (in case she changes her mind again) and run the new cables inside the back of the wardrobe, through the wall and put a surface box on to keep it neat and tidy. However, I went to a well known diy centre with orange signs and they only had crappy plastic unshielded tv Y splitters. I thought it would probably be a lot easier (and a good few quid cheeper) to use small 5A junction boxes. I guessed that shielding would be about the same and the contacts in a junction box would probably be better too.
Is this sensible or would it be a bad idea?
Cheers
Phil
Is splitting an ariel and/or sky cable with a small junction box sensible or daft?
Just chased in my ariel and sky cables down one side of our chimney breast in the lounge, had the room replasteed and redecorated. Now the missus has decided we want the telly on the other side of the chimney breast.
This isn't too bad as that side just happens to back onto a built in wardrobe in the bedroom (we're in a bungalow) so I can split the cable in the loft, leave the existing sockets in place (in case she changes her mind again) and run the new cables inside the back of the wardrobe, through the wall and put a surface box on to keep it neat and tidy. However, I went to a well known diy centre with orange signs and they only had crappy plastic unshielded tv Y splitters. I thought it would probably be a lot easier (and a good few quid cheeper) to use small 5A junction boxes. I guessed that shielding would be about the same and the contacts in a junction box would probably be better too.
Is this sensible or would it be a bad idea?
Cheers
Phil