Melting COAX Cable

[Kim]

Anyone ever have their coax cable melt and almost catch on fire? Last
night I had that happen to me...my tv cables were all connected
through two cable splitters, and one splitter got burning hot to the
touch, and then eventually caused one of the cables to burn up. I have
the cables going to a comcast cable box as well as a comcast cable
modem box. There was a thunderstorm the other night, but I also have
been having problems with that one splitter that burned up. The
comcast people told me that there's no way that could've happened
because their cables do not have any electricity in them...and I told
them that they should come over and see my melted cables. And idea as
to why this might have happened? I'm trying to figure out how to avoid
this again...

thanks,
Kim

[Robert]

There should be no voltage going thru your inside cable lines, but if you
have a bad/no ground for your AC outlets or if the neutral is bad it could
be using the coax as a return path to ground. I would check the outlets to
make sure they are wired right. You can get a tester at most hardware stores
(home depot/ lowes) that you just plug into the AC outlet and it will tell
you if it is wired properly.

[FDR]

Post by Kim
Anyone ever have their coax cable melt and almost catch on fire? Last
night I had that happen to me...my tv cables were all connected
through two cable splitters, and one splitter got burning hot to the
touch, and then eventually caused one of the cables to burn up. I have
the cables going to a comcast cable box as well as a comcast cable
modem box. There was a thunderstorm the other night, but I also have
been having problems with that one splitter that burned up. The
comcast people told me that there's no way that could've happened
because their cables do not have any electricity in them...and I told
them that they should come over and see my melted cables. And idea as
to why this might have happened? I'm trying to figure out how to avoid
this again...

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Post by Kim
thanks,
Kim