Identifying correct coax amongst others

986s · 30-10-2012 08:12PM #1

Hi Folks,

When building my house a few years back my electrician ran multiple coax feeds to multiple locations. Of course the labelling of these wasnt his strong point and they all run back to my study. Now i'd like to add another TV to the mix and was wondering is there an easy way to identify a single coag amongst a bundle of others? (preferably without having to put connectors on every one of them).

Many thanks

pauln · 30-10-2012 08:18PM

At one end connect the outer shield mesh to the centre core on one of them and get a multimeter and set it to resistance or continuity test mode and touch the probes off the mesh and centre core on the other end to find the one that’s a closed circuit.

phelixoflaherty · 30-10-2012 08:19PM

At one end of the coax connect (short) the core wire to the braided wire, then try and find the other end by putting a multimeter across the other end of the various other wires.
When you find the right wire the circuit will be completed.
Double check

pauln · 30-10-2012 08:31PM

phelixoflaherty wrote: »

At one end of the coax connect (short) the core wire to the braided wire, then try and find the other end by putting a multimeter across the other end of the various other wires.
When you find the right wire the circuit will be completed.
Double check

Snap!

Identifying correct coax amongst others

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