my tvs has lines on them

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Topic: my tvs has lines on them

Posted By: lynnboy021
Subject: my tvs has lines on them
Date Posted: September 04, 2012 at 8:24 PM

ok so i have two headrest tvs one tv on the roof and one tv up front and i have a xbox for all 3 tvs in the back..... i have all the tvs hooked up with rca cabls and one of my headrest dvd tv is the main tv but tomorrow i am going to make the front tv the main one.... anyways the #2 tv is hooked up to the out put on the #1 tv to the input on the #2 tv and my #3 tv is hooked up also to the output on #1 tv with a y-adapter.... my xbox is hooked up to the input on my #1 tv but when all 3 tvs are on you get lines on the tvs like when u flim a tv with a camera and when i turn of the xbox and put on a dvd #3 tv gets some light lines on it also.... hope the pic will help

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Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: September 04, 2012 at 8:58 PM

Is the XBox connected to a power inverter? If so, if you kill power to the inverter do you still have lines when watching DVDs?

Posted By: lynnboy021
Date Posted: September 04, 2012 at 9:01 PM

Is the XBox connected to a power inverter? yes it is if you kill power to the inverter do you still have lines when watching DVDs? to be honest i did not try it....

Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: September 04, 2012 at 9:27 PM

Go try it and let us know what happens.

Posted By: lynnboy021
Date Posted: September 04, 2012 at 9:29 PM

i am an idiot wrote:

Go try it and let us know what happens.

lol sorry wife has the truck she is working....

Posted By: lynnboy021
Date Posted: September 05, 2012 at 9:14 PM

sorry for the late reply... so i unpluged the xbox but i am still getting the lines. maybe it could be the pos/neg wires or the y adapters???

Posted By: i am an idiot
Date Posted: September 05, 2012 at 10:12 PM

i am an idiot wrote:

Is the XBox connected to a power inverter? If so, if you kill power to the inverter do you still have lines when watching DVDs?

Do not unplug the XBox, you must remove power from the inverter.