Cable needed: 4 twisted pairs, individually shielded with overall shield

Oct 06, 2003 5 Replies

Hi,



I have an application needing a cable with the following rough requirements:


-4 twisted pairs, individually shielded (braided). Ideally standed 28AWG, but we could do down to 26 or even 24AWG. Solid conductors could also be acceptable. A foil shield could do as well.



-outer shield, ideally braided, but foil could be ok.



-outside diameter (O.D.) of the cable 5mm maximum



-cable must be somewhat flexible



The troublesome requirement here is the O.D. of


I believe you can get Cat 5 cable shielded, has 4 Pair! Try the big guys, Beldin, Black Box, etc....

whats this guy doing, advertising his company on a german language news group? Lives (according to his website) in montreal and can't find cables?

Never seen a canned sig before? :-)

Crossposting is a new concept to you? :-0

So you have a source of such cable in your neighborhood? Please share you secret with the rest of us.

Maybe not to him, buy obviously to you because you don't know that you should take care about the contents of every group and set a F'up2. This includes the use of the correct language.

Regards, Lars

There is shielded CAT5 cable available.

The problem with those is that the pairs are not individually shielded on this kind of cable. Shielded CAT5 cable has a commin braid over all of the pairs.

Some CAT7 cables should be what you are looking for. For example cable at

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seems promising.

Tomi Engdahl (http://www.iki.fi/then/) Take a look at my electronics web links and documents at http://www.epanorama.net/

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