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Re: CAT5 Stranded Patch cable 305m?



Thanks for that Kevin as I'm running this cable outside!

Tracey

----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Hawkins" <yahoogroupskh@xxxxxxx>
To: <ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 2:19 PM
Subject: Re: [ukha_d] CAT5 Stranded Patch cable 305m?


> Not usre you'll worry too much about this but the exterior grade CAT5
> cable has a different sheathing , normally black in colour. 
Apparently
> the interior use grey/coloured cable can suffer cracking in cold
weather
> and also breaks down based on UV radiation.
>
>    K
>
> On 13/01/2010 13:39, Tracey Gardner wrote:
>> Hello Ben
>>
>> It's going to be used outside and I'd prefer it to be stranded
rather
>> than
>> run the risk of the solid cored type breaking.
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>> Tracey
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Ben McCormack"<yahoogroup@xxxxxxx>
>> To:<ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:16 PM
>> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] CAT5 Stranded Patch cable 305m?
>>
>>
>>
>>> Does it have to be stranded?
>>>
>>>
>>> On 13 Jan 2010, at 13:01, Tracey Gardner wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> I'm looking for a box of the above to use as a control
cable.
>>>> I've done lots of Googling but it all looks a bit too
expensive for my
>>>> taste
>>>> :-)
>>>> Does anybody know of a cheap source?
>>>> It doesn't need to be a full box, I need about 130m, which
rules out
>>>> using
>>>> readily available 100m drums of multicore stranded cable.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks
>>>>
>>>> Tracey
>>>>
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