Internet Splitter Bunnings

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Iam using a simple tv splitter box in my ceiling to split tv antenna signal and it is not working. I bought the Antsig splitter box from Bunnings and screwed the cables in and I thought it would be the simplest of jobs. But for some reason, it just does not work. I checked with a multimeter and found that there is circuit continuity between the input terminal and one of the output terminals while there is no circuit continuity between the input terminal and the other output terminal. I find it strange because both the output terminal should have circuit continuity with the input terminal, otherwise, how will it be able to pass on the signal to both the output terminals. I thought it might be a bad piece of the splitter and went ahead and bought another and found that the second one also did not work and had the same circuit continuity profile.

Am I missing something here? It should be the simplest of jobs, but it is not working for me. I prefer to use simple box splitters instead of an F-type connector splitter because the F-type connections are always loose unless it is done in a factory.

To do this, direct circuit continuity is required between one output and the antenna input. The other output is isolated by a capacitor to prevent any power supplied to the power feed output from being shorted out by whatever is attached to this output.

I find this comment from Samsquanch useful:

Make sure that you've stripped the Coax correctly and that the saddle is in contact with the braid. and no stray wires are touching the inner conductor

when coming across customers who have installed their own splitters, & then finding they don't work.

Screw on F connectors are available for different types of coaxial cable (it's necessary to ensure they are the correct type for the diameter of the coaxial cable in use), there are videos available to show how this can be achieved.

You can use the bunnings splitter. If you do have a masthead amplifier the connection with DC passthrough must be cabled to the side where the plugpack is located. If no amplifier then as long as you have the in and out the right way around and no short circuits it ought to work.

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