On 10/12/05 11:57 ET, 8's&Aces said...
I also have run into this problem once in years
past and thanks to your explination, I now understand
the technical reasons for the absolute screwed
up symptoms I got that day.
Isn't the range of symptoms, even now, just AMAZING? The one I was troubleshooting had the dish on the garage and two leads going over 100' to the house. They wanted to add a receiver in the garage, so I used a couple of splitters and a 2 in, 2 out multiswitch to provide a signal for the garage unit. In the dust and the sweat of the fibreglassy attic, I obviously (now) connected the splitter outputs incorrectly.
The garage unit was hardly ever used, but the polarity it was on determined whether half the house didn't work. Some days everything was just fine. Actually, on those days the garage unit might not work, but nobody was back there to experience it.
AMAZING.
