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Wiring - Yes/No?
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At some point I will tidy up my wiring. Next time we decorate it will get put in to the walls. Honest😕
Craig😁
GO on, Andy! I hope the spiders won't bite...
I must say that cabling has been one of my gret disappointments with B&O. Wwith other systems I have amnaged to tame cables into a cabinet, but with B&O I seem to have cabls everywhere - which is rather a contradiction with such minimal design!I have a BC2 with its cable goling to the socket box. Out of the socket box three aerials, a powerlink, masterlink and power cables. this is connected to the Avant which has it's own cables to STB etc. It is such a mess.I have however managed to take FM and DAB aerials and join them and plug them into the RF out of the Avant which connects to the TV antanae on the roof - this has got rid of two bits of wire!I bought a Wireless kit as I couldn't get under the house to a link room. the wiresless is only vaguely satisfactory as the signal is intemittantly cut off by B&O phones, microwave and wireless network. the other problem with the wireless connection is that you cannot run Beoport on it, so I cannot connect my Mac to the system.I have floorboards and no curtains so there is nothing to hide any of the cables behind.I have just built some of those false Skirting Boards that they use in the showrooms and this has proved partially satisfactory.My visitors constantly stand in awe at the beautiful equipment but are quite amazed at how ugly the connections are all along the wall.Maybe I should take the plunge and get some electrician to get under the house which has very little room and lay some cables. at least that will solve the problem with the linkroom.
Too knackered to go into detail about todays episode, but to cut it short.
1 Power supply is sorted
2 One powerlink cable too short
3 Both scarts too short (thought they were 10m but they were 5m, need about 7m)
4 Blood coming from both knees, one e3lboww, one thumb and two knuckles
5 Every mucsle is aching and brian starting to malfunction
Andy T.
Wish I'd just got 10m cable from Lee at half the price but never mind, you live and learn.
I also got two 5meter scart extensions from eBay, Maplins didn't have any male/female extensions. and got them all under the hoose and connected to my Kikinoko DVD/HDD recorder. Every thing is great except----
Whilst watching DVD, there is a ghost picture of Sky just visible. Could this be coz 2X 5m and a connection? Three meters of the scart are coiled up under the house. The Sky box is on the back of the Avant.
While on pause or stop or menu with the DVD recorder there is a hum. Could this be caused by the same thing?
Overall, I'm delighted and intend to do sod all to it for at least a couple of weeks.Andy T.
Although it can be a challenging job in the loft and under the house it is rewarding sitting back after it’s finished and not seeing wires running across the floor.
At least the spiders aren’t poisonous in the UK, they only bite a little…..
Haven't got the hang of this new site yet.... I (thought) I had posted a comment about long scart leads earlier in the thread. Seems not to have posted.
My experience with 10 meter long scarts was disappointing. For some time SWMBO had the sky box and dvd in a case some distance away from the avant. Recently the layout has changed to short cables and the difference is very noticeable. Despite the good quality long cables being supplied and fitted by the local B&O dealer I noticed in varying deegrees;
Ghosting from other sources, buzzing on sound, fuzzy picture.
Separating the cable runs did improve matters but the results were never as good as they are now with 1 metre cable to the sky box.
Earthing and shielding were very critical. Do you have any ML connections and are all the earth connections okay?
Gordon
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