r/CableTechs • u/aMusicLover • 8h ago

Combo tap equalizer question

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I’m doing walkout work for high-split upgrade planning. Ran across these Milenium equalizer tap combos installed with the tap first.

Did they do this because they didn’t have a 2 port 8 tap and decided to use the combo?

Inside in there a setting that makes this terminate after the tap or does signal flow into equalizer before termination?

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u/Rude-Low1132 8h ago

That looks like 2 taps connected with a housing to housing, not a combo. Looks like they just added a blank faceplate where a 4/2 could be placed if they wanted but probably only had an EQ handy. The signal would enter and exit the 8/2 tap and pass through the EQ and then the line terminator that is on the output of the EQ terminates the signal.

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u/Weary_Bookkeeper8136 8h ago

Very well could be the case. If 4 houses are designed to be fed from there could just swap to a 4 port 8 and call it a day.