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Cabling for projectors

I've now cat5'd my house, put good speaker cable around and decided against running shielded (I'll use the network)

However, while I don't have a projector today, I'd still like to run cable through the wall.

I figure I need to run a VGA cable, but is there a limit to their length?

I'd like full resolution so want to avoid component video or s-video, though I think I'll run both of them anyway.

Anyone have a sensible answer to the max-length of VGA cable (and where it can be purchased by the metre?)

Cheers! Rick Measham

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Rick Measham
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Run Cat-5e, put computer near monitor? I had a sparky at one place i worked run 20m VGA in a boardroom to a Plasma panel. worked a treat.

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The Real Andy

I've not done it myself, but a friend ran about 20m of video/mouse/keyboard extension cable from his study to the lounge so he could play games on the projector screen when not watching movies. Also worked a treat. So just buy one or two of those extension cables and run the keyboard and mouse leads as well 'just in case'.

Cheers.

Ken

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Ken Taylor

We had a guy out at work a while back to run a VGA link between our PC display desk and the bank of LCDs we have demo'ing from a splitter .. Cable run was easily 25-30m long, guy turned up with a roll of it, probably a 100m roll of VGA cable, and just put his own plugs on while he was there .. dunno what company he was from, just some unbadged contractor we hired.. electricians are probably a good place to start, see where they buy theyr stuff ..

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Lord-Data

or HDMI or MD-A1 or something newer, it might be better to run conduit with nice easy bends.

long enough I expect. more than 30m AFAIK.

Bye. Jasen

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Jasen Betts

I brought a VGA extension lead off the net, it was 20m long and very good quality, but cost over $70 i think, the web site had them up to about 50m long but the price got horrendous. sorry can't find the site anymore as it was a while ago.

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Dee

Update ...

found the mob who I brought off they are called

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here's a link to the 20m one

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(under $50 now!)

Dee

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Dee

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