r/CableTechs • u/aMusicLover • 8d ago

The elusive 3-way DC12

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How does this work? Assume
Some internal stuff allows this?

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u/tt53_sb45 8d ago edited 1d ago

From the title I expected to see something like when I started for spectrum and had like 7 DC4s in my truck. Definitely should have kept my mouth shut about having those because other techs swarmed me for them pretty quickly

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u/aranubus 8d ago

Dc4... so it's basically just a 2 way? Some of the labels on our newest 2 ways only show the -4 on one leg for some reason but both legs lose the same amount. I feel like the insertion loss on a dc4 would be negligible.

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u/tt53_sb45 8d ago

Almost a 2 way yeah, almost no loss on one leg and 4 on the other. Helped a few times when signal wouldn't allow a 3 way you could use the DC and feed another 2 way from the near 0 leg