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09/1/2016 at 11:04am
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Whoever thought that fitting the satellite TV point inside the locker where the EHU connection is should be shot!

Its totally impractical as you have to plug in the satellite connection before you connect the EHU otherwise you can't screw in the F type connector because the damn mains lead gets in the way.

Now I'll have to make up a tail so that it can stay connected whether the mains plug is in or not and have a quick release connecter on the lead for the dish and a mating connecter on the tail.

Why can't van manufacturers think about the practical aspects of using their creations and design out such silly but annoying things?

Post last edited on 09/01/2016 11:38:25

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09/1/2016 at 11:10am
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I use push type f-connectors for caravan use. They are quick and work well.


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09/1/2016 at 12:36pm
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Quote: Originally posted by brianconwy on 09/1/2016
I use push type f-connectors for caravan use. They are quick and work well.



I didn't know such a beast existed, good post, gonna get some of these.

Dave

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09/1/2016 at 12:50pm
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Quote: Originally posted by brianconwy on 09/1/2016
I use push type f-connectors for caravan use. They are quick and work well.


+1. Much easier


09/1/2016 at 1:59pm
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+2, saves my nail Varnish! 😀

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09/1/2016 at 2:24pm
 Location: Teesside
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Link to push type F connectors would be much appreciated


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09/1/2016 at 2:40pm
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Quote: Originally posted by david8858 on 09/1/2016
Link to push type F connectors would be much appreciated




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09/1/2016 at 3:22pm
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Ta very muchly Checkley.

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11/1/2016 at 8:54pm
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Suitable tail made up to be permanently installed in the battery box. Suitable plug now lives on the end of my satellite cable.

Also took the opportunity to replace the in line male to male adapter connecting the dish to the cable connecting it to the 'van as I noticed on inspection it was pretty corroded.

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12/1/2016 at 7:06am
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The EHU plug however is very easy to take out and replace should one not assemble things in the designed order; hardly a design decision I believe warrants the way over the top “should be shot", for making.

Where I find the application in my van of these screwed “F” fitting and push on Coax as well is poor, is where they are facing horizontal so the cable is cantilevered out straining itself and the connection.
I would have liked them facing 22 degrees or there about down from vertical so the cable and connection is is more relaxed than strained.


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12/1/2016 at 11:43am
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On our Lunar we have to fit the EHU connection before we can plug in the satellite connection using the F connectors.


12/1/2016 at 6:49pm
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On our Lunar you'd have to plug the satellite connecter in first because the EHU blue socket completely covers the satellite socket enough to stop you being able to screw the satellite connecter in.

Hence leaving the tail permanently connected so I can still connect the satellite dish to the tail with the EHY in situ.

Ours is a Clubman SI so perhaps you have a bigger battery box iank01

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13/1/2016 at 7:27pm
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No matter what caravan manufacturers do there will always be some people who are "experts" and who should be on the design team rather than be caravan users. Its a B***** TV signal input point. What is so difficult about fitting it first or second. I have bigger things to worry about


13/1/2016 at 7:57pm
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Quote: Originally posted by b4bill on 13/1/2016
No matter what caravan manufacturers do there will always be some people who are "experts" and who should be on the design team rather than be caravan users. Its a B***** TV signal input point. What is so difficult about fitting it first or second. I have bigger things to worry about



Please feel free to go and worry about them.

I am no expert but it does seem somewhat ill thought out to place the satellite socket directly in line under the Blue Mains plug for power entering the van leaving insufficient room to get your fingers in to tighten the F connector. Obviously who ever designed it had never tried to plug in an F connector.




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14/1/2016 at 1:51pm
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Quote: Originally posted by david8858 on 12/1/2016
On our Lunar you'd have to plug the satellite connecter in first because the EHU blue socket completely covers the satellite socket enough to stop you being able to screw the satellite connecter in.

Hence leaving the tail permanently connected so I can still connect the satellite dish to the tail with the EHY in situ.

Ours is a Clubman SI so perhaps you have a bigger battery box iank01


Same size battery box as yours which is why we now use the push on F connector. So much simpler.


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Quote: Originally posted by david8858 on 13/1/2016
Quote: Originally posted by b4bill on 13/1/2016No matter what caravan manufacturers do there will always be some people who are "experts" and who should be on the design team rather than be caravan users. Its a B***** TV signal input point. What is so difficult about fitting it first or second. I have bigger things to worry about



Please feel free to go and worry about them.

I am no expert but it does seem somewhat ill thought out to place the satellite socket directly in line under the Blue Mains plug for power entering the van leaving insufficient room to get your fingers in to tighten the F connector. Obviously who ever designed it had never tried to plug in an F connector.






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