vga cable

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Hi,
I need to make a 10 meter vga cable, from a computer to a tv.
I got 2 types of cables, a data cable 11 cores, its rather heavy and a cat 5 cable 8 cores.

I would prefer to use the cat cable, but not sure what the minimum cores is.

a vga cable that work got 11 pins wired .
Do anyone know which pins I must use, minimum that is.

 

[sajunky]

You need:
- RGB and corresponding analog ground wires - 6 wires
- Horizontal (13) + Vertical sync ((14), plus TTL ground (10) - 3 wires
- ID pins - 4 wires. If cable is dedicated, it can be permanently coded in the plug (no extra wires required).

This makes total 9 wires minimum. RGB wires must be shielded. 10 meters is to long to achieve quality at high refresh rates. Think about digital solutions like HDMI cable with converters.
Pinout: http://pinouts.ru/Video/VGA15_pinout.shtml

 

[Rickster]

Cores on a RJ45 cable?

 

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Cores on a RJ45 cable?

=8 ok you are right, a lan cable, and still it got a real name.

 

[AstroTurf]

Just download Electrodroid from an app store.

It has images and all the info you need for just about any cable out there.

 

[Sonic2k]

Using LAN (CAT) cable for this is going to be a disaster.
The best I could get, using a custom-made VGA cable, was 4m, they had to cut it back because I started to get ghosting on the projector (1024x768 @ 75Hz)

 

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Pins used are (1) R+, (2) G+, (3) B+) , (6) R-, (7) G-, (8) B-, (10) synch ground, (13) H+, (14) V+

I am first going to try this with a lan cable.

 

[sajunky]

Pessimist in this case, but while using LAN cable make sure to use correct (twisted) pairs for R+/R-, etc...
For sync it requires two ground wires (10+13 one pair and 10+14 second pair), for total 10 wires.

Good luck.

 

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Pins used are (1) R+, (2) G+, (3) B+) , (6) R-, (7) G-, (8) B-, (10) synch ground, (13) H+, (14) V+

I am first going to try this with a lan cable.

it works over 10 meters.