Shielded Twisted Pair Cable
When I started my Idratek installation I decided on using Shielded Twisted Pair cable. The screenshots from Karam show double cabling to the connector and the two shielded strands twisted together. Termination occuring just at the the power module into the 0V connection.
I've decided to use single connections as I didn't trust my skills on doubling up cables. But now I am not sure how to wire the shielded strands and where to terminate. Any guidance would be appreciated.
Paul
Shielded Twisted Pair Cable
we'll be buying our Cat-5 shortly, but haven't quite bottomed all the issues (type, quality, plugs, tools, etc) ... one of the many questions being shielded or not, obviously ... think we'll go unshielded, because when I broached the subject on AH a month or two ago, opinion (so far as it was expressed) was that sometimes it could be necessary, but generally it was to be avoided, because it could introduce problems of its own (noise / interference of some sort) ... not sure if that means it could be best not to terminate the shielding, maybe that would introduce problems, too ... but otherwise, grounding is usually done at one end only, presumably the power-module end, in this case, because it would provide the better ground - a key thing being to avoid earth-loops & associated resonances !
HTH - sorry if it's nothing new - just noticed 'no replies so far !
Shielded Twisted Pair Cable
PDU PDU PDU, I would say, all joined-up, through intermediate items, but terminate only at the PDU end - would be my guess ... but, actually, I think I would ask Karam !
'did some Google digging on shielded / unshielded today ... most often people seemed to say no need for shielding, unless very special circumstances ... I never felt I'd bottomed the issue ... and Gefen seem to use shielded, at least for AV distribution ! So we're still undecided ...
Shielded Twisted Pair Cable
Paul -
just in case, and picking-up on something David mentioned ... 'see Idratek have expanded their list of how-to PDFs ... I certainly didn't know it covered so many things ...
http://www.idratek.com/DLGuidelines.htm
Chris