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Surge Protector Eliminates Hum Bars or Audible Hum
Xantech Ground Breaker
Xantech Ground Breaker
Ground Breaker
Item# 81285
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Overview

  • Eliminates hum bars or audible hum
  • Isolates ground potential differences within an audio/video system

Essential Info

An audible hum or hum bars is often generated when A/V components are connected to a cable TV or satellite system directly. Eliminate this annoying interference with the Ground Breaker, a feed-through surge protector that resides on your cable line. The coax cable is sold separately.


Important notes:
  • Smarthome offers technical support on this product. We offer (2) ways to contact us for technical support: CHAT (homepage button: Mon-Fri 9:00am-6:00pm ET) or Phone: 1-800-762-7846 (Mon-Fri 9:00am-9:00pm & Sat 10:00am-4:00pm ET)
  • Defective exchanges for identical item within Manufacturer’s warranty period.

What's Included

  • Ground Breaker
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    The Ground Breaker isolates ground potential differences within an audio/video system without affecting the RF signal, so you'll be left with nothing but clear audio and visual communication.

    Specifications

    Specifications

    Xantech Product No.:634-00
    Dimensions:5 1/8" x 5/8" diameter (max.)



    Reviews

    16 Ratings
    5 star: 62%  (10)
    4 star: 0%  (0)
    3 star: 19%  (3)
    2 star: 6%  (1)
    1 star: 12%  (2)
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    ROBERT W -- northport, AL   6/30/2011
    I have a television, amateur radio, police scanner and FM broadcast radio connected to an audio mixer. I was experiencing a strong hum in the audio output. After researching this on the internet I discovered the hum could be coming from my cable TV feedline. Sure enough if I disconnected the coax cable going into the cable tv box the hum disappeared. I ordered this ground breaker and installed it on the back of the cable box and the hum is completely gone. There is no degredation in the cable tv audio or video. This device works great if you have audio hum caused by a ground imbalance on your incoming cable TV feedline.
    KURT -- springville, PA   3/6/2011
    Worked perfect to remove ground hum from AV system...fast shipping as well!
    JAY -- southaven, MS   10/14/2010
    Excellent Ground Breaker!! The TV cable was making my Bravia Sony to cut on and off by itself. Comcast solution was to run it thru my VCR tuner. The ground breaker solved the problem in seconds that I been wrestling for months. Thanks so much for a great solution that cost nothing compared to my $3,000 TV.
    JILL P. -- chicago, IL   9/2/2010
    This solved the horrible feedback/grounding problem we were having with our subwoofer. Too bad we tried soo many other things first. This works great.
    DEBORAH -- charleston, WV   7/28/2008
    Great product at a great price - just what we needed.
    ADAM -- eagan, MN   12/16/2007
    While this product is good in theory, it unfortunately filters out certain HD channels rendering this device useless for my setup. I have heard that there are higher quality ground-breakers that will not filter out HD channels and that one of those would likely be better for protection on a digital cable coax line.
    Ros -- laguna beach, CA   6/30/2009
    Great result, stopped the hum and the price was very good, I'd looked at one made by Jensen and that was 4 times the price!!
    Rick -- norwalk, CT   12/7/2007
    After the cable company did an apparently exhaustive survey within my home, they concluded the audio hum was from my TV and not their issue. So before I called in the TV repiar guy, I went online and ended up on a HDTV installers bulletin board. Someone there recommended the Xantech. I ordered one and in fact it worked - no hum. I think I'll have a conversation with the cable company. They charged me for a service call because they said it wasn't a cable issue.
    Adam Nowak -- astoria, New York   1/11/2007
    So when I bought my new 42" Plasma TV (ED, not HD!) I noticed some thick but light colored bars moving up the screen, and a thin but distracing hairline that followed it. I sort of assumed it was because of it being enhanced def rather than high def, or there was some bad cable in the mix of something; I'm no real home theatre geek and wasn't sure where to turn for help. So I went to a big box retail store and talked to a guy about it. He said "Oh yeah! Those are HUM BARS. This will take care of 'em" and hands me a $180 power strip specifically for "line cleaning". Well, I figured that when I had $180 burning a hole in my pocket I'd grab one and hope it worked. After a search for hum bars on Google brought me here I thought "$10 to solve my problem? Vs. $180?" I took a chance, a small one, and I am ENORMOUSLY PLEASED. This item is nothing more that a small length of coax cable with an extra "bit" to it. The bars - GONE. The distracting hairline - GONE. The picture now looks GORGEOUS, exactly the way it should. Thank you SMARTHOME!
    AL -- wilmington, DE   12/13/2006
    Excellent product
    Al -- wilmington, Delaware   11/19/2006
    I had very bad horizontal(purple)lines, humming and static noise on my new LCD-HD-TV. I installed it before the digital cable box Coaxial line-in and it worked like magic. I it made me very happy.
    JEREMY -- toano, WV   9/21/2005
    does the trick

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