johnhuson Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Hi All, Appolgies if this question has been answered before, done a search of the site but can't find an answer! We are re-doing all of our DMX FOH multicores over the next couple of months and I want to include some CAT 5 lines in them as well as DMX and comms tie-lines. So I'm trying to source some black sheathed, very flexible CAT 5 cable. Most of the stuff I can find is for install and as such is generally grey and not very flexible. Any help appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
colinmonk Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Hello John, TMB's Cat5 is very good! We use it for our foh data multis also... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doug kelly Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 Hi John I would agree with Colin TMBS cable is very good Doug Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andrew C Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 We've done this before. See here! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bruce Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 First, you should be aware that there are different types of CAT5 cable - and I'm not talking about the cat5/cat5e/cat6/etc argument. Most cat5 installation cable is solid core, and hence not particularly flexible. For patch cables etc you would use stranded cable, which is more flexible. But normally still PVC-jacketed. Installation cables come in several flavours - there's the standard PVC-jacketed stuff, there's LSOH for use in plenum space etc, and you also get an "exterior grade" cable. I've never used the exterior grade one, but I believe the main difference is that the cable jacket is more UV-resistant. Bruce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
londonjim Posted January 10, 2005 Share Posted January 10, 2005 We use Cat5 for long DMX runs - its much much much better than 'stanadard mic cable' and will not loose any data. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
johnhuson Posted January 11, 2005 Author Share Posted January 11, 2005 We've done this before. See here! DOH! Should look at the search results more thoroughly! Apologies. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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