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Yann Lehmann wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Brad DerManouelian wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Whomever installed your cable never bothered to ground it properly. Your
choices are to have them come back and do it correctly or ground it
yourself if you know what you're doing. Sadly, it happens more often
than you would think. Someone mentioned not long ago that they fried
their motherboard by plugging the firewire cable from their ungrounded
set-top box into their machine. I nearly blew up my PVR-350 when I first
got it because of the same problem. The tip is still a little black, but
surprisingly records just fine. :)
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Is there an easy way to check if the cable is grounded properly ?
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Yep. If it is the new standard you should have a "ground block" that
looks like a barrel (cable splice) bolted to the wall outside with a
green wire running from it to the ground wire running out of the power
meter box (you may also just have a splitter that will have the green
wire running from it, depending on the cable co's policies). The cable
will come from the pole (or up from the ground if in a underground
area) to this block and then into your house or to a splitter, If
you're not on the new standard then your cable may come from the
opposite side of the house as power and be grounded to a ground rod
(same ground block or splitter with a wire running to a rod pounded
into the ground, usually 4 feet or so) or to a water pipe.<br>
The sporadic jolts you're feeling would lead me to believe that you had
a cable modem. You're probably feeling it sending data to the node.<br>
Hope that helps some.<br>
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