As I have told you both on here and the other forum twice:
Crimp or compression F connectors with Belling Lee adapters where required.
The other point. Run a single cable to an easily accessible point and fit a 2 way splitter there. Run one output to you TV and the other output to the second...
Wrong. It is even more important with digital. On analogue odd impulse interference appeared as black dots, on digital it causes blocking and freezing with loud splats on sound. That is why old "low loss" coax is no longer recommended.
Reduced, but I wouldn't say greatly reduced.
By the way it...
I cannot understand how someone can be working on electrics in Canada and not know the voltage is 120v plus or minus 5%. 110v is a myth and outside the permitted tolerance.
Considered maybe, but manufacturers instructions are guidance only and do not have to be followed, especially when they are wrong, which quite surprisingly is quite often.
Surges don't generally happen in the UK. That's why we don't fit surge protectors in the CU unlike certain ares of France. Any big enough to damage a washing machine would not be stopped by a surge protector mains splitter. Surge protector mains splitters are a cause of random RCD trips.
One has to ask why? It was still working. It could not have been for cosmetic reasons in a garage. I can't help but think you are trying to justify your mistake.
Throw away society rears its ugly head again.
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