[sdiy] question about cables

[mailing gigaspeeds]

Yeah, you made a good point there and I cannot confirm if it's true.
I'll try to do some soldering with the scavenged CAT5 cable tomorrow and 
I'll let you guys know.

grtZ
Ben

Graham Atkins wrote:
> Do you mean un-plated by "pure copper" ?. If so it is great for IDC
> termination but not for soldering.
>
> Graham
>
> On 25 Aug 2009, at 08:57, benjamin wrote:
>
>>
>> funny, yesterday I fount CAT5E utp cable they were throwing away... I 
>> stripped it and am going to use it for internal wiring.  It's pure 
>> copper and far superior then multistranded cable in my opinion...
>> I even tried to bend and turn it lots of times and it didn't want to 
>> break :p
>>
>> grtZ
>>
>> Graham Atkins wrote:
>>> Well,
>>>
>>> On 24 Aug 2009, at 19:52, cheater cheater wrote:
>>>
>>>> OK, solid core cable works well if you install it and forget it, but
>>>> it's not really ever this way with modular synths in my experience.
>>>>
>>>> 1) a lot of people like to adjust their modules every now and then.
>>>> That might need you to move the pcb around and in the course of that
>>>> you could manipulate the wire
>>>
>>> Being "solid core" does not make them totally inflexible, copper will
>>> bend a fair bit without fracturing. Allowing some rigidity allows you
>>> to bend looms into place to keep cables apart from themselves and
>>> your PCB's / modules so not really a problem.
>>>
>>>> the sound will be degraded to the level provided by
>>>> your patch cords. Another run of the same wire will not degrade it any
>>>> further, the cable in question has already degraded it already.
>>>
>>> I think you are reading too deeply into this issue, "degrading" is 
>>> not a
>>> serious problem IMHO.
>>>
>>>> 4) there is the question of how often you'll have to replace a
>>>> stranded (soft) cable vs a rigid (single-core) cable. I am not sure!
>>>> Any thoughts? Which one will oxidize faster? Which will crumble
>>>> faster?
>>>
>>> The whole idea of plating the bare copper conductors with tin, silver,
>>> GOLD......or whatever is to reduce the oxidisation problem too a
>>> neglegible level which it does quite effectively compared to bare
>>> copper. Have you seen a bare copper PCB oxidise as opposed to a
>>> plated one ?, it will happen overnight.
>>>
>>> I think you are reading too much into these issues, they are not as
>>> bad as you may think. You should have been a Hi-Fi enthusiast LoL.
>>>
>>> Graham
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