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TIL I was installing my coax connectors backwards for 3 years
Was troubleshooting a garbled signal on a Garmin GNS 430 and a senior tech watched me for 30 seconds before pointing out I had the center pin facing the wrong way. Anyone else figure out a basic thing way later than they should have?
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hugos464mo ago
Laughing at charles cause I did the exact same thing with the clip logic. Had a buddy who installed cable TV for a living and he caught me on a quick job at my place. He stopped me mid-crimp and just stared at me. Said I was making his eye twitch. I had been screwing up every coax connection in my house for like 4 years and never noticed because most of them still kinda worked. The only time it really bit me was when I tried to run a long cable from the living room to the garage and the signal just died at like 40 feet. Once I flipped that pin around it worked perfect. Made me wonder how many other little things I've been doing backwards my whole life without knowing.
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phoenix5734mo ago
Wait, which way is the center pin supposed to face? I always thought it pointed toward the cable, but now I'm second guessing every connector I've ever touched.
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charles_young924mo ago
Honestly, the 'center pin faces the cable' thing is exactly what I thought too for years. I had this whole system where I'd line them up based on which way the clip went, and I never even questioned it. Ngl, reading your post and thinking about it makes me realize I might have been doing it wrong this whole time. Tbh I'm gonna have to go check every connector I've got now because you just shook my confidence.
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