Recent content by Joe Diamond

Chip knows stuff! joe

I have this roto hammer drill. It shakes masonry walls and blows out the opposite side of the wall. I charged for using it. The alternative was to get on the floor and pray with the customer....."God...please align the closets and stack them so we can run cable in them." Historic structures with...

AND.........he will need two of the four interchangeable outputs for his R 15.........right? AND.............the coordinates are, as Chip said, for the 110. Subtract nine degrees for the 101. OR plumb the mast....correctly set the published tilt & elevation. Have someone at the TV watching the...

J, I remember back in the early days when if you had $15.00 to give the installer you could have a DirecTv account. There was no credit check. There was no early termination charge. Customers didn't read their contracts or even know what they signed...............I predict the day will come when...

Yup, That would be best! There is another downside to avoid. As that equipment that worked perfectly is moved it sometimes gets dinged. At the new address the installer is introduced to this pile of stuff with strange markings on all the fittings and ports. There are sometimes issues. So, as you...

All will be the same, as Chip points out, I would add.......Nothing will be the same if you do not have a line of sight (LOS) to the DirecTV sats. AND Moving day is not the day to have the tech come rig you equipment. IF you can load all TVs, DirecTV eq and any...

Also, It looks like the 119 might be possible on the ground on the other side of the building. If so that would mean a pole in concrete deal for the dish & a cable run to the side of the building showing....where the e-meter & ground bond is. (Can't be sure of that) Then there is that tree...

The ONLY CID issue I ever heard of....some DirecTv receivers...not a DVR....don't know which manufacturer.......the CID would not work unless the system was grounded. I got a SC to go ground a system & the CID did work after making the connection...stopped when disconnected. Never heard of that...

I always wondered ablut that, The DISH sysrem allows a tech to run an independent TV #2 from receiver #1. There is still a cable run. Never saw the benefit. Anyone? Joe

I did Directv installations for many years. As part of the installation I ran many phone lines. There were occasional defective DirecTv receivers that would dump the phone system..... DT returned when the receiver was removed. A replacement receiver worked & did not interrupt dial tone (DT). So...

That is more significant than the grounding thing. Hiding a component like that is just asking for a big rip out! The tech is not paid to think or care........someone should spec out relocating that splitter.....nearer to a power source and rerun the cables...inside the wall while possible. Not...

To add to what TheTechGuru said............sometimes it is expedient to drill a crawl space wall rather than wrap the foundation. At this point you still have exceeded the magic 10 ft. from ground block to electric bond in most cases. IF you do the same thing running cable in and out of a...

Choose bonding to the main electric ground rod. Grounding and bonding are different things. Joe

About the back bonding.....you need a ground rod every ten feet all the way back to the original main bond.....pretty sure about the 10 ft...very sure about the addl rods. + IF the condo has been wired for cable you can use that system to distribute sat feed & you don't need a dish for...

Yup, Sometimes all the receivers that are connected to phones get fried even though the system is grounded. The grounding (bonding) is not lightning protection...it controls stray voltage from the house system, esp. the receiver & TVs. In theory it also dissipates static build up but how...