jandyt:

I will connect the mains  and find a way to shove the powerlink cables up behind the Avant. While I have the Avant out from the corner I will also have to find a way to get two 10 metre scart leads through the floor. My Kikinoko DVD/HDD recorder is going in the opposite corner to the Avant as I already have my Sky+ box mounted on the back of it and I think it would spoil the effect if I mounted it on top of the Avant.
The saga contines, update tomoz. Sorry if I've bored you all to sleep!

Andy T.

Until recently I had 10 meter long scarts for Sky + and DVD1. Despite good quality cabling installed by the local dealer, the loss of signal was noticeable. Worse was the interference on sound on Sky +. Shielding of the cable and connectors was critical. Try not to have the cables running close together.

Finally, (after some years) got agreement from HWMBO to move the equipment closer. MUCH better result.

Gordon  

Too knackered to go into detail about todays episode, but to cut it short.

1 Power supply is sorted
2 One powerlink cable too short
3 Both scarts too short (thought they were 10m but they were 5m, need about 7m)
4 Blood coming from both knees, one e3lboww, one thumb and two knuckles
5 Every mucsle is aching and brian starting to malfunction

Andy T.

jandyt:

Too knackered to go into detail about todays episode, but to cut it short.

1 Power supply is sorted
2 One powerlink cable too short
3 Both scarts too short (thought they were 10m but they were 5m, need about 7m)
4 Blood coming from both knees, one e3lboww, one thumb and two knuckles
5 Every mucsle is aching and brian starting to malfunction

Andy T.

Well, I've finally finished
I ordered a female/female powerlink adapter and five meters of cable from my dealer £30 Wish I'd just got 10m cable from Lee at half the price but never mind, you live and learn.
I also got two 5meter scart extensions from eBay, Maplins didn't have any male/female extensions. and got them all under the hoose and connected to my Kikinoko DVD/HDD recorder. Every thing is great except----
Whilst watching DVD, there is a ghost picture of Sky just visible. Could this be coz 2X 5m and a connection? Three meters of the scart are coiled up under the house. The Sky box is on the back of the Avant.
While on pause or stop or menu with the DVD recorder there is a hum. Could this be caused by the same thing?
Overall, I'm delighted and intend to do sod all to it for at least a couple of weeks.

Andy T.

Although it can be a challenging job in the loft and under the house it is rewarding sitting back after it’s finished and not seeing wires running across the floor.

At least the spiders aren’t poisonous in the UK, they only bite a little…..

 

Haven't got the hang of this new site yet.... I (thought) I had posted a comment about long scart leads earlier in the thread. Seems not to have posted.

My experience with 10 meter long scarts was disappointing. For some time SWMBO had the sky box and dvd in a case some distance away from the avant. Recently the layout has changed to short cables and the difference is very noticeable. Despite the good quality long cables being supplied and fitted by the local B&O dealer I noticed in varying deegrees;

Ghosting from other sources, buzzing on sound, fuzzy picture.

Separating the cable runs did improve matters but the results were never as good as they are now with 1 metre cable to the sky box. 

Earthing and shielding were very critical. Do you have any ML connections and are all the earth connections okay?

Gordon

Doh...... just found my previous post... it must have been hiding.

Gordon,

In my experience, even good quality SCART cables longer than a couple of metres produce poor results particularly when RGB video is in use which is the normal case. If I have to go more than a metre, then I use three 50 ohm balanced coax cable for the video, if fact you can buy SCART cables in this form to solve the problems you have highlighted.

I to have had the experience of hiding cables in the walls.  My living room looks like a bombsite.  Will put phots on this site to show the complete carnage.  However only after i have the finished product ready to live in.  Unfortunately all my walls are made of bricks and blocks so no amount of drilling or hammering with a hammer would achive the cables ducts i required.  So i borrowed my mates diamond edged block cutter.  I have never seen so much dust.  I litteraly could not see my hands in front of my face.  My first thought was is my precious B & O covered up enough?  Ran upstairs tripped, scraped my shins but still managed to cast my eyes on my dust free equipment.  Phew!!!!!

Been there,. done that!! Seems, Carl, like your a man after my own heart. Why pay someone to do it when you can make an **** of it your self?
I hope you tested everything before you started plastering it in!

Andy T.

Andy,

Carl, it´s good to hear I´m not alone! Looking forward to see it as well.

Carl Sheerman:

Andy,

         all the cables have been fully tested.  I have even layed an addtional set of speaker daisy chain cables just in case i want to have more than the norm in the future.  Even if i decide to sell i have put in bog standard speaker cable of a high quality.  I have tried to think of everything. 

Just need to finalise the final plugging up off the BV 7 to the ever growing amount of additional equipment.  I think i will use every socket on the back and just have the cables ready to use.  God damm thats a fortune in cables alone.  Cannot do plastering so the builder will do that.  Thanks God.

Will keep you informed.

B & O Nutter

Carl

 Just to suggestions which you may have done anyway;

1) Put 1 or 2 HDMI cables in the ducting if you havnt already.

2) If once the ducting is in the wall it will be possible to pull cables up and down it from below the floor, put a piece of phone cable in the ducting knotted at each end, have it over twice as long as the ducting, if you need to pull other cables through at a later date you can attach it and pull it though in either direction. Leave the bulk of the cable in the floor space and just wind up a short piece and hide at the top of the ducting.

Cheers

Peter

Thanks Peter i wll try and cater for all the recommendations that you have given me plus the other members as well.

...Also run coax for digital speaker connection - learn from my mistake. Now I'll never get the BL5s...

Duplicated post (sorry)

Frog,

Gosh, this seems a hundred years ago!!
I don't have the ghosting problem any more (with my 10 meter scarts) It wasn't a dificult fix either.
I just keep a Sky remote in a drawer near the Avant. When watching the Kikinoko DVD, I just switch the Sky box off. Sorted!

Andy T.