[sdiy] question about cables

[mailing gigaspeeds]

Well I stripped a CAT5E today and tried to solder to ends together, 
works like a charm, no difficulty at all.
Tinning the ends isn't causing any problems too.

grtZ
Benjamin

mailing gigaspeeds wrote:
>
> 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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