TV Setup

The principal TV is a 60" LG Smart 3D TV model 60LA6230 from VideoPro. The Owners Manual(18MB!) and Users Guide(16.5MB!) can be viewed here (you may need to remove the file name extension ".sav" to open them).

Bought 18 July 2013 for $2,533.10 with 5 year warranty.

The TV is mounted on a wall bracket above the Bar in the Family Room. Its signal comes from the main TV antenna and its audio is handled by an old Yamaha Receiver/Audio System (RX-V1400). It is connected by Ethernet cable to a Wireless Router located at the Bar and fed by a Gigabit Cat 6 cable from the principal Billion Modem/Router.

The main antenna is mounted on the house chimney and a coax runs down the outside wall to near the electricity meter box where there is a discarded Telstra Isolator (Zinwell ZN-AU) and Drop Amplifier (Zinwell HDA-R6-4AU 860 MHz). The four outputs of this Amplifier were already cabled for Foxtel. They now go to:

1. Concert Room where the Amplifier 12 V power injector is located;
2. Bedroom 1 on the west wall;
3. A splitter in the Family Room in the Bar Area:
   1. The main TV on the wall there;
   2. The FM signal for the Yamaha Receiver/Audio System.
4. A splitter in the roof near the chimney:
   1. Bedroom 3 on the North wall;
   2. A splitter in the roof near the manhole:
      1. The Office on the East wall;
      2. Bedrom 4 on the West wall.

Various other old TV outlets are located throughout the house, but the wiring is very poor quality. One that I have got working is in the Kitchen. A small TV (Kogan KALED19XXA) there is fed from a cable that had been chased into the brick wall; it comes from the lower roof cavity near the air conditioner outlet for the Kitchen. The TV requires a signal stronger than could be supplied by the main antenna through two splitters. A second antenna (32 Element Log Periodic) and amplifier (Kingray MHW34G) were installed in the lower roof cavity to do the job. The power injector for the amplifier is located next to the TV.

LINKS

• VideoPro http://www.videopro.com.au

Intercom

Antenna for Kitchen, in the lower roof cavity.

Kitchen TV with speakers. TV power supply and 12 V signal amplifier injector behind the TV.

TV antenna on the chimney on the roof. Its an older type but the UHF section seems adequate.

Discarded Telstra isolator and drop amplifier for TV. It supplies four areas in the house. The antenna signal enters via the ZN-AU Isolator.

Main TV in the Family Room on the wall. (Power monitoring meters on the right.)