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Old 04-09-2016, 03:41 PM   #1
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Satellite system grounding

Hello all! I tried searching and didn't find any good hits, so if this is already covered, I apologize. I wired up my Thor ACE for satellite by dismantling the wall that hides the cable splitter and hijacking the cable in run and connecting that to a SWM splitter. I then figured out which cables off the cable splitter went to which tv. I connected them appropriately to the SWM splitter. Ran another coax to the PI. I started to clean up to reconnect the cabinet wall when starting at me on the SWM splitter is the green grounding screw. I checked my home SWM setup that was installed by D* themselves and it's not grounded.

1) Do I need to ground this SWM splitter?

2) if yes, can I ground it to the ground wire in the electrical box right there?

3) If I need to ground the system, can I do it at the Dish or cable connection point on the RV somehow?

4) If a grounding block is the answer, does that get connected to anything other than the two RG 6 cables?

Thanks in advance for your help!!
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1, no
2, no
3, no need
4, again, no need
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The system will have a path to chassis ground thru the Sat Receiver coax connection and the Sat Receiver's grounded power cord, but personally I went ahead and connected the ground connection on the Hybrid Solo Node to the RV chassis with an 8 gauge ground wire to provide a ground to the system even when no receivers are connected to outlets.

The roof top unit is grounded thru the high quality coax with lots of drain wires in the sheath of the coax that was provided by Winegard, that I used. So my RV's install has a fairly low resistance ground path to the dish on the roof thru the coax to the Node.

If you don't have your RV buttoned up yet I would ground the Node.
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