Replacing Cable for TV
Alright so we finally made it into Seattle a little over a week ago. Fortunately the park we're staying at has cable. Unfortunately half of the channels we're a bit fuzzy right off the bat. I assumed ...
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What caused it is simple. You had/have a corroded or shorted coax cable usually at the connection end and usually at the roof top connection. THAT caused a bleed of 12 volt current, not enough to blow the fuse, but enough to heat up the center copper conductor and cause the coax cable to heat and the melt. Whenever you turned on the Antenna booster that current then flowed. You need to find out why the CABLE input had such back feed of current as the Cable input should never have 12 volt current on it. Only the cable from the booster to the roof antenna should have this current. Doug
