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The device the electrician he used to determine if a wire was "hot" or not -- just lit up if it was. So i'm not sure if this was measuring voltage or amps. no probes or anything -- he could just wave it by a cord/cable. Anyone know what this thing was actually measuring to determine if it was...

Tv plugged in but turned off -- no cable or antenna connected. i'll double check that it was volts. tv plug a non-grounded type (tv is a 13" sony trinitron).

So i wanted to run some tests myself on the voltage issue i have/had.. Got my voltmeter out and plugged the culprit tv in (tv off) and measured from the ground plug of an outlet to the outside coax threads and i got 60 VAC. I thought this verifies what the electrician saw, but then i decided to...

you will not believe what my problem electrically was. had an electrician out today, we spent 2 hours going through the wiring and all and during his testing he found a live coax cable, the one that connects all my tv's throughout the house. We tracked it down to my kitchen tv -- it was leaking...

thanks for the replies.. i'm going to have an electrician come out soon. i'm still trying to find what the problem is. Could this kind of thing happen if my dish is not grounded. Neither the dish nor the coax cable is grounded. also, w/ the circuit breaker off and using a continuity...

If Apple ever allow you to rent movies via the iTunes store i could see iTV being very useful and it would be a great replacement for netflix. Just imagine you netflix queue being immediately playable at all times!

This just popped into my head... Remember how i said i took my bedroom tivo several times and put it into the theater rack to use on the projector without incident while my repair unit was getting sent back!?? And i was baffled that when i went to put the repair unit in... ZAP? the difference...

Thanks for all the advice. First -- i have one of those plug checker things and all my outlets throughout the house are wired correctly. I also have thought of the cross-outlet different-circuit issue regarding possible ground potential, but i didn't know of a way to test that. I also thought i...

Well the coax used to be grounded but i'm running brand new coax runs that don't go through the house/walls to rule out anything going on in the walls. And i don't believe my dish is grounded so that may be a place to start. I have/had 3 tivos -- so i tried it again with a grand new tivo and...

I have been having a very strange and hard to pin down electrical issue with my various home theater equipment. I’ve blown up over the past months about 2-3 tivos, and my projector 2 times. What is happening is that at seemlingly random times when I got to connect up say the HDMI cable on my...

i tried that -- now it boots to a blank screen -- nothing. Trying to down/up load or install the lastest firmware fails now cuz the pronto will not respond... hitting the reset button causes it now to also boot to a blanks screen -- it's really screwed up i think

Tried to hard-reset the pronto (TS1000) buy using a paper clip. Reboots to: "Invalid config file - restart will use original..." only option is to press restart -- i do -- comes back up to same invalid config file screen -- forever and ever. Software to update firmware fails cuz it...

I just got my OTA module for my dish 6000 reciever. I know need to hook up some sort of antenna for it to get it all going. I used antennaweb.org and they said i'd need a medium directional antenna. So where is a good place on-line to buy an antenna that fits this? I'm in a small town so...