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Parallel Ribbon Cable
I was wanting to build a parallel cable to extend an old webcam that I have
about 15 metres from the computer. Does anyone happen to know what properties the cable needs to have (apart from being 25 conductor and having connectors on the ends of course)? Will pretty much any 25 conductor ribbon cable I can find in an electronics catalogue do the trick? If anyone happens to know a DigiKey part number for the right kind, please do tell me. Ewan |
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"Ewan Sinclair" wrote in message ... I was wanting to build a parallel cable to extend an old webcam that I have about 15 metres from the computer. Does anyone happen to know what properties the cable needs to have (apart from being 25 conductor and having connectors on the ends of course)? Will pretty much any 25 conductor ribbon cable I can find in an electronics catalogue do the trick? If anyone happens to know a DigiKey part number for the right kind, please do tell me. Ewan Are you talking about 25 conductor centronics type ends cable? The longest I've ever seen is 25 feet or about 8 meters. Even at that length they sometimes don't work depending on the quality of the cable, ends and signal strength. Your talking about 3 times that distance. MY guess is the cost of the cable and ends will exceed the cost of a camera that uses wiring that's guaranteed to work. claus |
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