TV aerials
Mike
refit the junction box cap, fill it with mastic or stern tube grease as its
water proof.
One of the problems with water in the junction box it runs down the cable
(inside) into the back of the TV.
This does happen.
Wet patches on the carpet and you blame the cat.
Mike
nb Dances with Bears
----- Original Message -----
From: "Richard Tanner" <richard...@orange.net>
>
> Further to my post praising the Image 530 aerial I have to report that a
> problem has occurred. Every time it rained and the aerial was in the
> horizontal position water got in and we lost some of the digital channels.
>
>>> Richard Tanner
Pete Stockdale
"Mike" <a...@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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Sorry.
First I have seen of this crisis here (:-)
Where and when was this post ?
Regards
Pete
www.thecanalshop.com
Brian on Harnser
> One way of stopping this problem is to wire the aerial up and before you
> refit the junction box cap, fill it with mastic or stern tube grease as its
> water proof.
>
> One of the problems with water in the junction box it runs down the cable
> (inside) into the back of the TV.
>
> This does happen.
>
> Wet patches on the carpet and you blame the cat.
>
>
> Mike
> nb Dances with Bears
with a very long cable run. I drilled a hole in the coax at a low point
to let the water drain out before it got into the set as we needed to
keep the radio working and had to order new cable etc to fix it.
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Paul E Bennett
One should put a drip loop into the down-cable run to let most of the
rainwater flow off the cable. As for the junction box itself, fill it with a
silicone compound to prevent ingress.
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Richard Tanner
Obviously I didn't make it clear that the water was getting into the body of
the aerial, not the cable run. If you look here
http://www.busyoutdoors.com/shop/electrical-tv/mobile-television/aerials/image-530/18-2-uhf/fm/vhf-aerial/prod_129.html
you will see that the fins stick out from a two piece body. This was where
the water was getting in. It still does with the new one but it hasn't as
yet got to any of the aerial internal electrical gubbins in the body.
Richard Tanner
Richard Tanner
"Pete Stockdale" <peter....@btopenworld.com> wrote in message
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Original post was on the 15 September from Boatman on uk.rec.waterways. The
post referred to above was from me on the 16 October.
Richard Tanner
Pete Stockdale
"Richard Tanner" <richard...@orange.net> wrote in message
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>>
>>
>> Sorry.
>> First I have seen of this crisis here (:-)
>> Where and when was this post ?
>
>
> The post referred to above was from me on the 16 October.
>
> Richard Tanner
Thanks for that.
The heavily cut version of your post , the top post from Mike and the change
of header title
had me lost for a while.
Regards
Pete
Paul E Bennett
[%X]
> Obviously I didn't make it clear that the water was getting into the body
> of the aerial, not the cable run. If you look here
> http://www.busyoutdoors.com/shop/electrical-tv/mobile-
television/aerials/image-530/18-2-uhf/fm/vhf-aerial/prod_129.html
> you will see that the fins stick out from a two piece body. This was where
> the water was getting in. It still does with the new one but it hasn't as
> yet got to any of the aerial internal electrical gubbins in the body.
>
> Richard Tanner
Is the body of the aerial screwed together and can you get into it? If so I
would fill that with silicon compound before screwing it back together.
Comments about drip loops for down-cables still stands though.
Richard Tanner
"Paul E Bennett" <Paul_E....@topmail.co.uk> wrote in message
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> Is the body of the aerial screwed together and can you get into it? If so
> I
> would fill that with silicon compound before screwing it back together.
> Comments about drip loops for down-cables still stands though.
I can't see any way to get the thing apart in such a manner as to be able to
put it back together so that it would work. I have the old one, they didn't
want to put me to the bother of returning it, and I might well try to split.
The obvious way to seal it would be to run a bead of silicon in the joint
between the two halves and I may well do this when I can raise the
enthusiasm. The manufacturer/importer/whatever know that this occasionally
happens and they were quite happy to replace mine. I think that steps have
been taken to remedy the fault.
The comments about the drip loops were noted but already implemented,
thanks.
Richard Tanner