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kevphillsaxplay
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Jul 13, 2022

02 four winds tv cables

Good morning, I am new to this forum because I’m new to RV camping. We have a 2002 Four Winds 5000 Class C motorhome. I’ve taken out the old analog TVs and the converter and have replaced them with newer flatscreen digital TVs. My question deals with the TV booster box on the inside of the cabinet near the first TV. There are three cables going into it and a negative and positive to power the box itself. The cables are marked numbers one, two, and zero. There are three inputs on the back of the box and there’s one on the front including A 12 V receptacle.

My question is what do the numbers on the cables mean? Which one of the connections is the antenna?

Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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  • ford_truck_guy's avatar
    ford_truck_guy
    Nomad
    Jul 13, 2022
    kevphillsaxplayer wrote:
    ford truck guy wrote:
    As far as the numbers on each, I do not know... IF you wanna see where they run, you can always buy one of these -

    ***Link Removed***

    race and label them yourself


    Ok. That’s a pretty cool device. If I’m understand it I plug the tool into the line in question and put one of the color coded remotes on the other end and if it lights up that color I have a match?

    kp


    It will create a sound when you cap the other end on the same cable.. I have one and put labels on ALL of my face plates and cable ends. Since I had satellite and cable connections on the same face plate and the first one I checked was reversed..
  • kevphillsaxplay's avatar
    kevphillsaxplay
    Explorer
    Jul 13, 2022
    ford truck guy wrote:
    As far as the numbers on each, I do not know... IF you wanna see where they run, you can always buy one of these -

    ***Link Removed***

    race and label them yourself


    Ok. That’s a pretty cool device. If I’m understand it I plug the tool into the line in question and put one of the color coded remotes on the other end and if it lights up that color I have a match?

    kp
  • kevphillsaxplay's avatar
    kevphillsaxplay
    Explorer
    Jul 13, 2022
    MountainAir05 wrote:
    One is going to be the Antenna, The other one could be a Cable/sat line if you have sat. The other one the TV.

    Power on the box and try each cable to the TV.

    Or you can jump out the one line at the cable back in the electric door and ohm it out inside the RV. That will give you one.

    As stated one is TV antenna, but knowing which the other two does not take too much time to figure it out.


    Hi and thanks for the help. I did locate which inputs are the antenna and the bedroom tv following your suggestion. The tv in the bedroom is #2 and goes in the Jack on the far right. The antenna is in the input on the far left. I’m waiting for the living area tv to show up so I can check the middle input and the front input.
    kp
  • ford_truck_guy's avatar
    ford_truck_guy
    Nomad
    Jul 13, 2022
    As far as the numbers on each, I do not know... IF you wanna see where they run, you can always buy one of these -

    cable tracer

    race and label them yourself
  • MountainAir05's avatar
    MountainAir05
    Explorer II
    Jul 13, 2022
    One is going to be the Antenna, The other one could be a Cable/sat line if you have sat. The other one the TV.

    Power on the box and try each cable to the TV.

    Or you can jump out the one line at the cable back in the electric door and ohm it out inside the RV. That will give you one.

    As stated one is TV antenna, but knowing which the other two does not take too much time to figure it out.

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