Doug Siddons Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Pricing up a cat5 multicore and the price skyrockets when you wish to add a cable drum to it. 20 meters no drum from Stage costs £85, 50 metres on a drum costs £262 does anyone know why there is such a big difference? (NOT having a go at Stage as similar pricing from various others ) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
smalljoshua Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 It's only £50 for the drum assuming the per meter price of the cable doesn't change on the jump from 20m to 50m. £50 for what I assume to be a metal drum with the cable having to be wound onto it by a person at the Stage Depot. That doesn't seem too bad to me. Josh Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_Beech Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Have to agree really. Drums do cost a bit, whether they're un-necessarily expensive or not I don't know. One would expect the price per metre to drop a little as the cable length gets longer, though maybe not from 20m to 50m. I'm assuming this is good quality cable suitable for constant flexing etc etc. I'd certainly hope so at that price. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bobbsy Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Rob makes a good point. Basic Cat 5 is designed for permanent installations and has solid cores. However, there are other versions with stranded cores which might be suitable in an application where the cable will be frequently reeled in and out on the drum. I suppose it's too much to expect that the stuff on the drum will be stranded cable for that application? Bob Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob_Beech Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 I would hope so really, at that sort of price. I mean it's 30ppm if you don't look in the right places for standard stuff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Beesley Posted May 27, 2009 Share Posted May 27, 2009 Kelsey Duracat??? http://www.kelseyweb.co.uk/site/m2/10/m2_10.html Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StevenW2 Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 Pricing up a cat5 multicore and the price skyrockets when you wish to add a cable drum to it. 20 meters no drum from Stage costs £85, 50 metres on a drum costs £262 does anyone know why there is such a big difference? (NOT having a go at Stage as similar pricing from various others ) We use standard Cat5 - about £50 buys you a 300metre box and we cut and terminate it on site as required for a lot of jobs. The stuff on reels is usually Tour Grade Cat5 which is expensive. I don't know if it's any harder wearing though! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mackerr Posted May 28, 2009 Share Posted May 28, 2009 We use standard Cat5 - about £50 buys you a 300metre box and we cut and terminate it on site as required for a lot of jobs. The stuff on reels is usually Tour Grade Cat5 which is expensive. I don't know if it's any harder wearing though!Stranded CAT5 may work fine in many cases, but if it used with Ethernet based equipment the 100m limit on cable length applies only to solid conductor cable. As far as E'net goes stranded cable is for patch cable only as it has a much shorter length limit. If your application doesn't need the full bandwidth of E'net it can probably run on stranded cable as the cable length limits are based on full bandwidth. Lower data rates can use longer cable, or stranded cable. Mac Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djandydee Posted June 2, 2009 Share Posted June 2, 2009 Ah - but will it sound as good. The standard solid core grey suff you get in a 305M box wouldnt have the same stereo image, balance, depth, bottom end, clarity, vocal presence unless it was dipped in snake oil and painted some shade of rare earth green. ;) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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