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ESB boxes

  • 20-07-2019 07:34PM
    #1
    obi604
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,274 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    See pics in this link: https://imgur.com/a/O6rlNzn

    One shows the mains ESB box with the meter. Below it there are 2 smaller boxes. Both the smaller boxes have a rolled up black cable as shown in the other picture.

    What are the 2 smaller boxes for?


Comments

  • #2
    Seanieke
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Seanieke


    Phone? Gates?

    Can you show us the top ie inside of the cable


  • #3
    obi604
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,274 ✭✭✭obi604


    Seanieke wrote: »
    Phone? Gates?

    Can you show us the top ie inside of the cable


    Can only see one end of a cable. Looks like this


    https://imgur.com/a/NoOude6

    In the other box, I cannot see the end. Goes off inside the house.


  • #4
    salmocab
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 11,858 ✭✭✭✭salmocab


    Probably phone and tv


  • #5
    tedpan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭tedpan


    obi604 wrote:
    Can only see one end of a cable. Looks like this


    Looks like coax


  • #6
    greasepalm
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,115 ✭✭✭greasepalm


    So the house looks like when it had a make over rewired coax and other services are too hand.Thats handy.


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  • #7
    obi604
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,274 ✭✭✭obi604


    greasepalm wrote: »
    So the house looks like when it had a make over rewired coax and other services are too hand.Thats handy.


    Would this have anything to do with a charge point for an electric car?


  • #8
    tedpan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,526 ✭✭✭tedpan


    obi604 wrote:
    Would this have anything to do with a charge point for an electric car?

    No, completely different


  • #9
    Payton
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,697 ✭✭✭Payton


    They are connection boxes for digital tv (Not Virgin Media or Sky) and the other box will be normally be a phone line.
    AFAIK they are there so driveways are not dug up with different services being brought in.


  • #10
    The Cush
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2, Paid Member Posts: 16,293 ✭✭✭✭The Cush


    Payton wrote: »
    They are connection boxes for digital tv (Not Virgin Media or Sky) and the other box will be normally be a phone line.

    My sister has one of those boxes for VM co-ax TV/broadband in Lucan, early '90s house. No good for SkyQ if there is only a single cable.


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