This past weekend, I was going through all of my coax connections trying to track down where I had direct feed for satellite and where I didn't. Things were going well until I got to the hookup in the bedroom where the satellite out is also part of the antenna applifier. No signal there. So after a little bit of head scratching, I decided pull the amplifier and see what's going on. While I will leave this for another discussion, there was no cable hooked up to to the satellite output and no cable to be found anywhere in the ceiling. Frustrating. But to my question ....
While pulling down the plate, a couple of the coax cable connectors came off their cables. This is not common right? OK, I can fix those but in the process of redoing the connectors, I accidently arced the 12v power wire against one of the connectors and it sparked just a little. OK, never thought about shutting the power off. Now after putting everything back to together, with amp on I only get a week signal to the bedroom TV and nothing at all in living room. I even went and bought a new amplifier plate and no difference.
Could I have fried the antenna itself?
Frank
While pulling down the plate, a couple of the coax cable connectors came off their cables. This is not common right? OK, I can fix those but in the process of redoing the connectors, I accidently arced the 12v power wire against one of the connectors and it sparked just a little. OK, never thought about shutting the power off. Now after putting everything back to together, with amp on I only get a week signal to the bedroom TV and nothing at all in living room. I even went and bought a new amplifier plate and no difference.
Could I have fried the antenna itself?
Frank