This latest entry will bore many of you so if nothing else, I shall blog about the technical stuff that I do for the Indianapolis OTB and Peppers.
When we closed the lower level at the OTB, we had a few flat screens that we took down and I had to come up with places to put these screens. It's not as easy as one may think as there are a few factors when you just wanna "put up a TV".
1-Is it a "load bearing wall" that we are gonna put the TV on? If not, anchoring a piece of plywood between the existing studs is the way we went and then attaching the TV bracket to that board.
2-Is there sufficient power nearby? Has to be on a 30 amp circuit otherwise you risk popping a breaker when you fire up the TV's all at once. Is the power "isolated"? The last thing you need is a bar neon or any type of heating/cooling unit to kick in and cause interference on the TV.
3-Is the RF signal clean getting to the unit? Too many people will take a feed going into a room and throw a splitter on the end to make another run into a another room. That is the WORSE thing you can do! Here is some free advice, ALWAYS have one point of a splitter (like near where the cable comes into the building) then run EVERY line from every TV back to that one splitter. You will be amazed how better the picture is. You lose 10db of signal every time you interrupt that line running through the building to get a TV going.
Installed a cable box at Peppers so we can get "Tru Tv" for the NCAA hoops. So what do you do if you have ONE cable box and 5 TV's that need that feed? Simple…
1-Took the RGB "component out" & ran it to the projector for high-def 1080.
2-Took the composite video out, ran it into a channel 3 "modulator". Took the RF output of that modulator and tapped in the other TV's that needed that cable box feed, problem solved!
So, if you need any of this deciphered for some video work you may need done, feel free to contact me!
I'm sure this is not as exciting as what I have done on radio and what I am doing in the clubs but it is another part of what I do and I am damn good at it!
