Re: Any DIY balun info for S-video to Cat5 conversion?
- From: "Phil Allison" <philallison@xxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 14:25:33 +1000
"Dave"
>
> I'd like to see if it would be acceptable picture quality wise to run
> s-video from a podium over ~125 ft of Cat5E back to a video switcher
> that feeds a multimedia projector. I've Googled and only found
> commercial units that cost ~$70/pair.
>
** $70 is cheap.
The quality will not be perfect and EMI may still get in.
> Can anyone point me to a website that shows how to construct these
> converters? (would 100bt transformers do the job?)
>
** No, video is not data !!
It is more like hi-fi audio that goes out to circa 5 MHz.
> I could run a pair of RG6 over this distance and put S-video on that
> but I'd rather just pull 1 cat5e length instead.
** Why not just use two runs of 75 ohm RG59 ?
The signal loss at 5 MHz over 125 feet is tiny.
........... Phil
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