JDLX Posted November 22, 2006 Author Share Posted November 22, 2006 Its ok I was a bit pre-emptive with my last post. I've purchased 40m and 30m gold plated vga from amazon marketplace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tomo Posted November 22, 2006 Share Posted November 22, 2006 Gold plated is completely irrelevant - a private bugbear of mine is gold-plated RCAs. What matters is the cable - it should be individually screened RGB and of good size and capacitance. Thin VGA cable is awful stuff - one screen for all conductors, if that. The thick stuff is usually good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JDLX Posted November 27, 2006 Author Share Posted November 27, 2006 Gold plated is completely irrelevant - a private bugbear of mine is gold-plated RCAs. What matters is the cable - it should be individually screened RGB and of good size and capacitance. Thin VGA cable is awful stuff - one screen for all conductors, if that. The thick stuff is usually good. Ah well, the cable looked of high quality overall. They arrived a few days ago and are top notch, triple shielded and quite thick, so hopefully was worth the money. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jon73 Posted December 10, 2006 Share Posted December 10, 2006 Basically I need to run a feed from a PC in a foh position to a projector rear of the stage (30-40m). I assume VGA cable will not work over that distance. I was considering a vga to phono converter and running a long stretch of that, but I've heard some concerns about the signal quality when using such a convertion. My basic idea for the setup was to have a PC running the Video, paired with an old 486 or Pentium producing a black screen through a KVM Switch. This would allow me to switch to the black screen while I scan to the next scene or make changes on the video pc. Could anyone advise me (a relative newbie to AV) what the best solution to this would be (for the setup in general not just the cabling)? Bearing in mind that the show will be very low budget. Cheers, Joeive managed to run cables of 40 mtrs inside a school hall with next to no signal loss if you find you a problem have a look at kramer kit the produce a variety of "Black box" fixes for various applications Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ben Lawrance Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 One thing I have learnt with VGA cables it that you have to be really carefull with them when coiling/uncoiling, otherwise you can break the cores. I hired out some 10m VGA cables (with other bits as well) and when they came back, the green signal was broken in one of them, because the customer had done the lead up round his arm/elbow and broken it. These were VDC cables. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
henny Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 I hiredout some 10m VGA cables (with other bits as well) and when they came back, the green signal was broken in one of them, is it me or is it allways the green that goes first Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete McCrea Posted December 11, 2006 Share Posted December 11, 2006 Seems to be the red on mine...... Lost two 30m VGA-VGA's recently. Always pains me to watch other crew knackering the cables, then giving you blank looks when you try and explain the cost and way to handle them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toxopholist Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Funny, with me it always seems to be missing/ bent pins rather than cores... Charlie Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pete McCrea Posted December 13, 2006 Share Posted December 13, 2006 Defiantely the cores. Check the DSub and it's ok. Flex the cable, and theres red, then there's no red..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thebigcheese Posted December 17, 2006 Share Posted December 17, 2006 Are there not wireless VGA senders available? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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