Buy:Pasolini
06-26-01, 10:45 PM
I have a 35" RCA tube tv w/ cable & s-video hookup to dvd player. Recently Cox Cable put some type of signal booster on my cable inside my house since i live near a mountain. It consists of a box outside, and a signal splitter inside the house with one split of it going to an ac adapter (you know, the black square thing you plug in the wall).
Anyway, a couple months goes by & everything is fine. Last week i began experiencing sudden bursts of violent static forming horizontal static lines across the screen. If i wiggled the cable inlet it seemed to cause it or make it better. I swapped a different cable out but didn't help. Now it is so bad that it is causing the channel to jump to WGN (always, no matter what channel i'm on!) or will cause the whole tv to shut on and off, on and off until i unplug it.
It might be the cable, but the other tv's in my house are unaffected. Also i have unhooked the signal booster & it continues to do it.
I don't think it is the tv itself unless it is only the cable-in jack, because my s-video works fine & dvds play perfectly on the set.
My main question is: before i check the solders on the tv cable jack (the tv weighs a ton) - i need to eliminate the possibility of static causing this. My set builds up a tremendous amount of static charge & if you touch the screen it will sometimes give a shock nearing painful levels. The visual static problem seems to increase if you walk up to it & touch the screen, esp. when standing on the carpet (i.e. when the static electricity charge increases). My roomate got the visual static to stop by touching the screen while grounding himself, but i can't recreate that.
Is there a way to ground the set or is it possible i have my system hooked up in a way that might be damaging my tv w/ static buildup somehow? I recently moved all my components to a new location in the house & may have hooked something up wrong.
Sorry this is so long. Any help would be appreciated.
[Edited by Pasolini on 06-26-01 at 07:49 PM]
Anyway, a couple months goes by & everything is fine. Last week i began experiencing sudden bursts of violent static forming horizontal static lines across the screen. If i wiggled the cable inlet it seemed to cause it or make it better. I swapped a different cable out but didn't help. Now it is so bad that it is causing the channel to jump to WGN (always, no matter what channel i'm on!) or will cause the whole tv to shut on and off, on and off until i unplug it.
It might be the cable, but the other tv's in my house are unaffected. Also i have unhooked the signal booster & it continues to do it.
I don't think it is the tv itself unless it is only the cable-in jack, because my s-video works fine & dvds play perfectly on the set.
My main question is: before i check the solders on the tv cable jack (the tv weighs a ton) - i need to eliminate the possibility of static causing this. My set builds up a tremendous amount of static charge & if you touch the screen it will sometimes give a shock nearing painful levels. The visual static problem seems to increase if you walk up to it & touch the screen, esp. when standing on the carpet (i.e. when the static electricity charge increases). My roomate got the visual static to stop by touching the screen while grounding himself, but i can't recreate that.
Is there a way to ground the set or is it possible i have my system hooked up in a way that might be damaging my tv w/ static buildup somehow? I recently moved all my components to a new location in the house & may have hooked something up wrong.
Sorry this is so long. Any help would be appreciated.
[Edited by Pasolini on 06-26-01 at 07:49 PM]