TV Link Eye moves into a new era

The TV Link Eye system, introduced by Global Communications, has long been popular with installers and end users alike.

It has generated a comprehensive range of user friendly products tailored to a wide variety of applications. From the standard 'Eye' through to the ever-popular 2, 4 & 7 way distribution amplifiers and the 4 & 8 way Loft boxes, the range of products offers a simple and cost effective solution to any distribution requirement.

Global Communications have recently catapulted the TV Link Eye system in to a new era. The first step was the introduction of two new products, the 'Amp Adder' and the 'Plus Combiner'.

The 'Amp Adder', like so many of Global's products, is a very simple but effective idea. It is ideally suited to the situation where an existing distribution amplifier has run out of capacity, or a further amplifier is needed in another part of the distribution system.

The unit fits between an output of the existing amplifier and the input of the second amplifier. It passes DC to power the TV Link Eyes, the RF signals and the data stream from the TV Link Eye back to the digibox. To avoid overloading the amplifiers, or the connected receivers, the unit ensures a 'unity gain' to the RF signal.

The second product is another very simple but effective solution for those installations having both a standard Sky Digibox and Sky+ box in the same installation.

The unit combines the RF2 outputs from the two boxes and allows them to be sent along a single cable to a single TV Link Eye. By using the appropriate remote control at the TV Link Eye end it is then possible to control each box independently.

The 'Second RF Outlet Power' needs to be turned ON in each box, one supply being used to power the 'Plus Combiner, the other powering the TV Link Eyes and line powered distribution amplifiers in the system.

One box has its RF1 output connected to the main TV and the other is connected by SCART, with the aerial input and RF1 output on this box being left spare or, preferably, terminated in 75 ohms. At the remote receivers it is only a matter of selecting the appropriate channel on the TV and using the right remote control.

More new and innovative products are also being launched by Global Communications as part of this initiative and will be reviewed in the next issue of Riggers Digest so watch this space.

Contact your local Solutions Group depot for full product details on these and all other Global Communications products.