Install gone wrong - 1 H34, 1 H25, all wiring, SWM splitter, power injector, and my plasma TV all to

[mwedward]

Just wondering if anyone can help me out trying to sort out what might have happened.



Tech connected up all outside gear and grounded to an outside ground (copper, pretty oxidized) on the house. Came inside and began hooking up the SWM power injector, after hooking up the H34 and the H25 in another room. plugged the SWM-PI in and blew the circuit breaker.. weird... checked everything plugged it back in then popped the breaker, immediate fried electronics stink. H34, SWM-PI, TV, and PS3 were all plugged into same surge protector.

Eventually we determine the H25 (in the other room), SWM-PI, H34, and TV all refuse to power on or operate correctly (PS3 seems fine so far), the only way new equipment would work was if the SWM splitter and SWM-PI were replaced along with all wiring in the house. The tech also had to unground the equipment to get things to work properly - he's saying that most likely we have no ground existing and somehow that was what caused everything to blow out. From what I can tell we are grounded via copper cable clamped to multiple points in our well piping to outside along with what appears to be a rod in the ground outside. I've checked outlets with a multimeter and all outlets checked are reading ~120 hot - to ground and hot to neutral, and neutral to ground is in the milli-volts.

Anyone have any idea what could have happened?

Thanks!

 

[Jimbo]

I would contact a Electrician.

 

[raoul5788]

I second Jimbo's advice. It's time to bring in a professional.

 

[twizt3dsist3r]

I 3rd Jimbo's advice, and also in my opinion which is also not that of an electrician but is of an installer, I dont believe that a power inserter can provide enough voltage to fry out a whole breakers worth of electronics, plus you said the h25 was in another room? That *should* make it on another breaker, again, I STRESS my opinion is not that of an electrician, but I dont see the directv install to be relevant to this problem. If you have alot of free time, the installers phone number and want to pay for some of his time just to find out for 100%, what you could do, is run a line straight off the dish into a windows, run some lines straight down the hallways and run an extension cord into a gfi outlet and power everything up off an extension cord, dedicated power strip, and brand new wiring. I say pay the installer for his time because the "test" wiring would then all have to be scrapped, possibly some of it could be re used as jumpers or as shorter lines in your home, but most of it would end up wasted. This would basically rule out everything but your wiring.

 

[Hutch1814]

I'm going to agree with all 3, sounds like more of an electrical problem. I see SWM do crazy things but I don't see 20.4-20.7 volts doing this much damage

 

[Jimbo]

I'm going to agree with all 3, sounds like more of an electrical problem. I see SWM do crazy things but I don't see 20.4-20.7 volts doing this much damage

Agreed.

 

[richsheli]

There is a neutral and ground wire reversed in your electrical system. A simple electrical receptor tester could find witch outlet is bad. Make sure you have a qualified electrician do any repairs.

 

[KraziJoe]

Yup, get an electrician. And if that doesn't work, a few bottles of Jack might help...

 

[Jimbo]

Hmmm,
No replys since the original post, were all wasting our time on this one.

He must not liked our responses ...

I wish posters would reply back when they ask questions so we know that they have solved the issue or not.

 

[Liquidforce88]

There is a neutral and ground wire reversed in your electrical system. A simple electrical receptor tester could find witch outlet is bad. Make sure you have a qualified electrician do any repairs.

Can tell you from experience that is indeed the problem. The satellite system just had the bad luck to be what tied it all together and reveal the problem.