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ESB boxes

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  • 20-07-2019 7:34pm
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    obi604
    Registered Users Posts: 5,636 ✭✭✭


    Hi

    See pics in this link: https://imgur.com/a/O6rlNzn

    One shows the mains ESB box with the meter. Below it there are 2 smaller boxes. Both the smaller boxes have a rolled up black cable as shown in the other picture.

    What are the 2 smaller boxes for?


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    Seanieke
    Registered Users Posts: 853 ✭✭✭Seanieke


    Phone? Gates?

    Can you show us the top ie inside of the cable


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    obi604
    Registered Users Posts: 5,636 ✭✭✭obi604


    Seanieke wrote: »
    Phone? Gates?

    Can you show us the top ie inside of the cable


    Can only see one end of a cable. Looks like this


    https://imgur.com/a/NoOude6

    In the other box, I cannot see the end. Goes off inside the house.


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    salmocab
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    Probably phone and tv


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    tedpan
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    obi604 wrote:
    Can only see one end of a cable. Looks like this


    Looks like coax


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    greasepalm
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    So the house looks like when it had a make over rewired coax and other services are too hand.Thats handy.


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    obi604
    Registered Users Posts: 5,636 ✭✭✭obi604


    greasepalm wrote: »
    So the house looks like when it had a make over rewired coax and other services are too hand.Thats handy.


    Would this have anything to do with a charge point for an electric car?


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    tedpan
    Registered Users Posts: 4,627 ✭✭✭tedpan


    obi604 wrote:
    Would this have anything to do with a charge point for an electric car?

    No, completely different


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    Payton
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    They are connection boxes for digital tv (Not Virgin Media or Sky) and the other box will be normally be a phone line.
    AFAIK they are there so driveways are not dug up with different services being brought in.


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    The Cush
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    Payton wrote: »
    They are connection boxes for digital tv (Not Virgin Media or Sky) and the other box will be normally be a phone line.

    My sister has one of those boxes for VM co-ax TV/broadband in Lucan, early '90s house. No good for SkyQ if there is only a single cable.


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