rachelsfx
join:2004-09-27
Pensacola, FL | That sleeping tech must've did it
LOL! |
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exocet_cm
I am the law
Premium
join:2003-03-23
New Orleans, LA
clubs:   |  Wow!
That is amazing! I'm glad nobody got hurt! |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
Premium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD | Is This Even Believable?
Every appliance exploded?
A crack opened in the ceiling?
Did the skies darken and moon turn to blood too?
Come on... this sounds at least like an embellishment to me.
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StumpMan
Premium
join:2001-07-26
Clinton, NC
| Good on ya, Comcast!
Makes sense to me that Comcast would pay for it. The price to repair the house would be far less than a damaging 'bad rumor' would be.
Word of mouth campaigns do more to hurt a business than any advertising they pay for.
Get good service, and you may tell 2 or 3 people.
Get bad service, and you may tell 20 or 30 people. |
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rachelsfx
join:2004-09-27
Pensacola, FL
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Re: That sleeping tech must've did it
»www.youtube.com/watch?v=ufo9p1O9iAQ |
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RockCake
Premium
join:2005-07-12
Woodbridge, VA | reply to pnh102
Re: Is This Even Believable?
I was thinking the same thing... |
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gogeta6
join:2002-06-20
San Diego, CA
clubs:
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Does sound a bit so.
I wonder if the house was built with coax in place? If not and this is true, wouldn't it have already happened? And what do the two new amps have to do with the situation, or are those just the reason for the tech being out? |
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StumpMan
Premium
join:2001-07-26
Clinton, NC | reply to pnh102
I'll take a guess that you've never seen the damage a lightening strike can do.
I've seen a bad ground fry systems in a house before.
It's possible. |
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Joe12345678
join:2003-07-22
Des Plaines, IL
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Re: Good on ya, Comcast!
It looks like that they will hire anyone
COMCAST CABLE INSTALLERS/up to $1500WEEKLY
Reply to: see below
Date: 2006-09-25, 3:44PM CDT
FULL TIME EMPLOYMENT.
MON-SAT
ALL YOU NEED TO START IS A VAN OR TRUCK
AND A LIST OF TOOLS
1. 18 V cordless hammer drill + 2 batteries.
2. 28’ fiberglass ladder with safety hooks.
3. 3/8 24” + 3/8 3’ concrete drill bits.
4. 3/8” and 1” wood bits.
5. Drywall knife.
6.Cable CUTTERS.
7.Fish tape min 1oo FT.
8.Flexible 4 or better 5 ft drill bit.
9.Cord hammer drill ( for masonry, brick drilling).
10.Tape measure 25 ft.
11.Wood chisel. 12.Flash light.
13.Putty knife and drywall patch – fast drying.
14.All special tools – toner, crimper e.g.
15.Wrench set 7/16; ½; e.g.
16.Consert tool(optional).
17.Ladder rack – only professional (must be safe with stoppers).
18.Safety harness and lanyard.
19.Hard hat.
20. Two safety traffic cones.
WE DO TRAIN!!! |
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roknthesuburbs
@comcast.net | That has to be an ad for a Comcast subcontractor. AFAIK, Comcast supplies vans and tools to all in-house employees. |
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bogey780
join:2004-03-19
Here | Grounding
The Comcast grounding must have went to what was suposedly the ground wire except it wasn't set to the rod. He didn'thave (or use?) a voltage detector. |
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LeftOfSanity
join:2005-11-06
Felton, DE | reply to rachelsfx
Re: That sleeping tech must've did it
Gee, that was original. |
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pnh102
Reptiles Are Cuddly And Pretty
Premium
join:2002-05-02
Mount Airy, MD
 ·Comcast
| reply to StumpMan
Re: Is This Even Believable?
said by StumpMan  :I'll take a guess that you've never seen the damage a lightening strike can do. This was not a lightening strike. The amount of power going to the average house doesn't even come close to the amount of power brought by a lightening strike.
said by StumpMan :I've seen a bad ground fry systems in a house before. Frying systems is one thing, having every appliance explode is another.
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jtudor
Xm 60's On 6 Freak
Premium,MVM
join:2002-12-07
Morganton, NC
| reply to roknthesuburbs
Re: Good on ya, Comcast!
Wow, you mean that a US Cable franchise operator still has installers on their payroll?
I thought all that work was now contracted and subcontracted out. All of it in this area is. None of the cable companies have installers on the payroll, it's all contracted.
They have techs, but the techs don't do installs.
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Best of luck
"Do, or Do not, there is no try!" Yoda
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cypherstream
Looking forward to the future of things.
Premium,MVM
join:2004-12-02
Reading, PA
clubs:
| There's a little voltage on my line.
When Connecting the Motorola 6412 DVR in my house, its really quite a challenge. As my arm reaches back in the narrow entertainment center opening, as long as I'm touching the metal on the 6412 and the coax cable at the same time, I get quite a buzz. I measured 70 VAC between ground and CATV. On another box going through a computer I measured 69 VAC between the cable box and the cable line. We don't have grounded outlets so perhaps it's doing this same thing. The Cable line is grounded to a copper pipe outside at the ground block. |
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jtudor
Xm 60's On 6 Freak
Premium,MVM
join:2002-12-07
Morganton, NC
| You need to call either an electrician, or your cable company and get that fixed before someone gets hurt or equipment gets fried. That is very dangerous.
What that means is that the two pieces of equipment are at different ground potentials. All electrical equipment in your house should go to the same ground.
That is why most of the time, you will see the cable ground, and the telco ground tied to the electrical ground of the house, to keep all the equipment at the same ground potential.
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Best of luck
"Do, or Do not, there is no try!" Yoda
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LazMan
join:2003-03-26
Angus, ON
 ·TekSavvy Solutions..
| Not likely...
OK - I call BS.
While a surge can do dramatic damage (I've seen the results of 5kV being shorted to a 110/240 distribution system, and the utility repair/replace everything electric in a dozen homes as a result) there is NO way the co-ax cable was carrying that much current. It would have burned through like a fuse LONG before the comcast tech opened the connection up to test...
Laz |
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JPGrimmace
join:2003-09-16
Pontiac, MI
| reply to rachelsfx
Nothing New to Me.
Comcast installed cable and internet into my aunts home by running coax through a hole in a second floor (of 4 floor) screen window. This cable had serious grounding issues too and would cause her to lose cable modems regularly. Once, while trying to resolve more connectivity issues, the pin from her coax cable tapped the side of her PC. We got a nasty shock and a new pin sized hole on the side of her PC case from this crap. I'm just glad it wasn't my arm that got that hit. |
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Westofhere
join:2005-04-07
Monroe, WA
| reply to pnh102
Re: Is This Even Believable?
"Turns out, my neighbors electrical system had no ground wire. The house was using the coax cable as a conduit into the comcast system at the tap. The current then followed the shortest path into his next door neighbors ground wire."
No way an RG6 coax line could possibly carry the load to ground an entire house. For one coax isn't even tied into the electrical. Second a typical ground wire is around #8 gauge wire, RG6 would have smoked the instant the electrician flipped the breaker. Unless you live in the Ozarks no inspecter would ever let a house pass without an earth ground, and your local power company would have shut you off a long time ago. |
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Toadman
Hypnotoad
join:2001-11-28
Medina, OH
1 edit | said by Westofhere : For one coax isn't even tied into the electrical. Most cable companies install a coax grounding block to the ground on your homes electrical system. You are correct on that specific electrical ground should go to an earth ground as well per NEC code. |
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