Cable TV and 12v over UTP CAT-5

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Azevedo

Azevedo

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Due to physical space limitation I had to pass KU band (TV dish cable / 13 ~ 18V) + UHF signal in the same UTP unshielded cable.

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Since 100Mbs network uses only green and orange pairs I used the other two pairs for cable TV dish, which runs a 13~18V on each pair.

So,
green and orange pairs: 100Mbps Rx/Tx
brown: TV dish / antenna KU (~13V)
blue: TV dish / antenna KU (~13V)

It works.:bounce:

I'd like to know you guys opinion on this. Is this save?

 
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kanewolf
IT isn't going to damage anything, but it won't work very well. Twisted pair and coax are very different cables at RF frequencies. Could there be channels that don't work, possibly. But if you are happy, then I guess you can do what you want. I might have tried to use the cat5 as a pull string to pull the correct cables.
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IT isn't going to damage anything, but it won't work very well. Twisted pair and coax are very different cables at RF frequencies. Could there be channels that don't work, possibly. But if you are happy, then I guess you can do what you want. I might have tried to use the cat5 as a pull string to pull the correct cables.
 
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