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Subject: Re: FW: [motm] Cable color scheme advice?
From: jwbarlow@...
Date: 2003-02-19
Ken said it all.
If I knew I would ALWAYS have the option to get different colored cable to help trace patches, I might take that into account, but this is a one time buy and I know I will want to get a huge number of cables in future years.
In a message dated 2/18/2003 1:27:27 PM Pacific Standard Time, ken.tkacs@... writes:
The "rainbow/wavelength" idea seems a logical as anything to me. I hadn't thought about that idea, but it's interesting. I may adopt that myself, and I'm glad folks on this list mentioned it.
In all honesty (ah hemn) I have to admit that my cable color scheme is actually the opposite of what I claimed. I got the idea of (5) rainbow color cables with red being the shortest and blue being the longest directly from Serge T.. I have no idea why he chose those colors/lengths (this might be the standard way banana cables come from Pomona) but many years later I was showing them to a friend (as well as the 75 other cables I'd made) stating, "and I chose these colors because red is the shortest wavelength and blue is the longest." To which he said, "No! It's the reverse."
But I have too many cables to change now.
JB