RE: KAT5 Website Updated

["James Hoye" <james.hoye@xxxxxxx>]

> Is it possible to engineer the units with a power supply on the PCB?
That'
s what John Sim does with his RGB to SVideo converter, and it makes the
thing much neater (I HATE wall worts!)

> Would it be possible to build them so they will fit into a double wall
box - again that smacks of a far neater installation - I realise that would
restrict portability, but certainly in my case (small house) I would have
one behind the telly in the bedroom and one behind the Sky box.

I thought a version to fit in a wall box would be a good idea too.  I
discussed this idea with Keith - the problem comes with mounting the
connectors through the front of a blanking plate - how can you secure them
>from
the scarts and mini DIN would be more difficult - hot glue wouldn't hold a
scart socket in given the stupid design of it and the forces experienced
when inserting a plug into it!

The current PCBs may be slightly too large to fit into a double box -
probably because in order to keep production costs down, Keith designed 1
board that serves as a TX or RX end when correctly populated.  Separate TX
and RX boards would probably fit - but then board fabrication costs
double....

If you have 2 runs of CAT5 to a wall socket (like who wouldn't), then you
could use the second run to provide power from a central source at node
zero
via your patch panel - just don't get confused and plug an Ethernet device
into it!!!  A custom RJ45 -> power jack lead would do the trick and
remove
an ugly pregnant plug.

> Only suggestions, you can do with them what you will, but both of
these
would actually persuade me to put at least one run of CAT5 into my new
house
J

You know it makes sense!!!

James H


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