Noisy Power Supply on FiOS SDTV box
Hemingray
Enthusiast - Level 3

Hello.

Okay, My uncle on Staten Island has FiOS, and has four sets. three HD sets and one older SD set in the basement. When the FiOS service was installed, the TV in the basement had suddenly developed severe amounts of snow caused by RFI from something. Since they had sent him a new SD box, we had connected this in, and got no snow. Okay, get lazy and put the old one back in, and..........still no snow!

Long story short, the problem was the wall-wart power supply sent with the first box was generating severe amounts of RFI that was being picked up by the TV set (an older 70s-80s dial-type set with 300 ohm terminals). We just left the new power supply in place with the original box, and all worked perfectly.

Has anyone else ever had an issue with RFI on older sets from these units?

(PS: Swapping the old PSU back in, even with the new box, brought the massive snowstorm back)

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