Cable Guys - What is this?
- Thread starter Pat Barringer
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Shit dude ,just showed that to my kid ,who is a bit of an electronics expert . He said looks like an older model listening device ( microphone). What kind of shit you involved in ? If nothing what about your wife ,if you have one ? Who owned your house before you ? Like I said he says it looks old. Maybe try a radio shack or a local private dick supply store. Good luck dude ,hope hes wrong or someone else in here has an idea.
Oh for fucks sake. The cable guy was here today to hook me up after I dumped directv. It was just laying in the room with all the splitters and modems and shit in it. Maybe he just found it in the drop ceiling somewhere?
I wonder how these work, I don't think you can have a circuit where a coax just hooks up to this. You would think there needs to be some kind of power source in it to work.
I wonder how these work, I don't think you can have a circuit where a coax just hooks up to this. You would think there needs to be some kind of power source in it to work.
Looks sort of like this
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You must update on what you find out.
http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcT1k7O9GfhDgRaX_9lC4P-ggbVnY-gMUJ498_hySu-LcXU_8kj9Ug
You must update on what you find out.
It's not plastic. It's some kind of goldish metal (maybe brass) that's aged to a black patina. It's got a knurled finish (like it's made so you can keep a good grip on it) and is all one solid piece. I can't tell what's inside the grate.
When the cable guy was here he had some thing that he put on the patch cables to the recievers and he said if it doesn't light up red, the cable's ok. He also had some pretty sophisticated looking digital meter also, so I don't know if this thing is what he was using or not.
When the cable guy was here he had some thing that he put on the patch cables to the recievers and he said if it doesn't light up red, the cable's ok. He also had some pretty sophisticated looking digital meter also, so I don't know if this thing is what he was using or not.
The talkback mic is just so the engineer can talk to the people in the recording booth, so it doesn't matter. I'm not sure why the talkbacks are BNC, but like many things in the recording industry, it is probably a dumb common practice that people just still do for no reason (there's a TON of that shit).
I work for Comcast. It's the other end of a cable toner. It tones out the cable lines in the basement if the customer only wants certain rooms hooked up. The other end looks like a crack pipe that goes on the wallplate. That end you have there gets plugged into the fitting at the main splitter and it will make a ringing noise telling you that the cable that runs to that room.
