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CoreyWhite

Jan 1, 1970
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And this isn't the first time it has happened. Because of the
pressures put on time warner cable install technicians, they don't
have time to ground their cables, and so when voltage spikes come
through the lines they fry and damage new televisions. They had
scheduled a check-up on thursday, over a week after they installed my
cable modem & digital cable box, to ground the cable as the
technicians said they were supposed to. But I had to call them up
today because my tv got electracuted, and the cable on my other old-
style tv is getting only the basic networks, and everything else is
fuzz. They have a cable guy coming, and a technical supervisor to
access the damage. I just know that with new HD TV's if they don't
ground your cable they WILL BLOW OUT! And it happens all the time.
The remote's they give you for programming HD TVs with your cable box
don't work with the new TV's either.

Read about the problem here:

http://www.justicejunction.com/complaints_time_warner_cable_company.htm
 
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MassiveProng

Jan 1, 1970
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And this isn't the first time it has happened.

Your TV is what sucks and broke, and the signal feeding it had
nothing to do with it.

Try to get back to reality.
 
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Winfield Hill

Jan 1, 1970
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MassiveProng said:
CoreyWhite wrote,


Your TV is what sucks and broke, and the signal feeding
it had nothing to do with it.

Try to get back to reality.

Fault currents with improper cable-grounding can
be a serious problem, get some reality yourself.
 
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MassiveProng

Jan 1, 1970
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Fault currents with improper cable-grounding can
be a serious problem, get some reality yourself.


If you hook your LCD display up to your cable box via coax, you
should have your head examined, not your cable lines.
 
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Michael A. Terrell

Jan 1, 1970
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CoreyWhite said:
And this isn't the first time it has happened. Because of the
pressures put on time warner cable install technicians, they don't
have time to ground their cables, and so when voltage spikes come
through the lines they fry and damage new televisions. They had
scheduled a check-up on thursday, over a week after they installed my
cable modem & digital cable box, to ground the cable as the
technicians said they were supposed to. But I had to call them up
today because my tv got electracuted, and the cable on my other old-
style tv is getting only the basic networks, and everything else is
fuzz. They have a cable guy coming, and a technical supervisor to
access the damage. I just know that with new HD TV's if they don't
ground your cable they WILL BLOW OUT! And it happens all the time.
The remote's they give you for programming HD TVs with your cable box
don't work with the new TV's either.

Read about the problem here:

http://www.justicejunction.com/complaints_time_warner_cable_company.htm


"Time Warner" hasn't existed for several years. They changed their
name to "Brighthouse Networks".

If the install was bad, why did you let them connect the TV to their
system? Failure to bond the the building's ground system should have
been reported to the building inspector. It is a firing offense at
every CATV system I've had any dealings with. They had to get special
permission to use a separate ground for my underground feed because it
went to a detached garage, rather than the main house.


Haven't I seen you trolling lots of other newsgroups?


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Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida
 
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CoreyWhite

Jan 1, 1970
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"Time Warner" hasn't existed for several years. They changed their
name to "Brighthouse Networks".

If the install was bad, why did you let them connect the TV to their
system? Failure to bond the the building's ground system should have
been reported to the building inspector. It is a firing offense at
every CATV system I've had any dealings with. They had to get special
permission to use a separate ground for my underground feed because it
went to a detached garage, rather than the main house.

Haven't I seen you trolling lots of other newsgroups?

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Service to my country? Been there, Done that, and I've got my DD214 to
prove it.
Member of DAV #85.

Michael A. Terrell
Central Florida- Hide quoted text -

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I was paranoid when he told me that he hadn't grounded the system, and
I asked him if there was anything we needed to do today. He said, no,
and that he would have everything working before he left. But someone
else would still have to come back to finish the job and ground all of
the cable. Maybe they should fire this guy.
 
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default

Jan 1, 1970
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If you hook your LCD display up to your cable box via coax, you
should have your head examined, not your cable lines.

What LCD display?

Reality is that lightning can fry the tuner in a set with an
ungrounded coax. The "grounding block" puts a hard ground on the
cable at the house and most also provide a spark gap to discharge the
inner conductor should a static charge build up on the conductor.

It isn't too uncommon for a power pole supporting a cable to have some
really strange things happening if the insulation on the power wires
or HT insulator is wet . With the price of copper high - some folks
are going to the poles and ripping off as much of the pole ground wire
they can reach - that can really add to the problems.

The block should connect to the service entrance power ground.

Easy enough to do yourself.

As for the original poster maybe he just hates TW - I do. Maybe he's
trolling. I don't know. But I wouldn't be connecting a TV to an
ungrounded coax that terminates on a power pole with a 10KV primary.
 
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Kisai

Jan 1, 1970
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Do you keep you fictional 27" LCD TV next to your fictional PS3?
 
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