Long cables?

[chewie]

Can anyone tell me what sort of cable I can use to extend the link of the IR cables from my iTach? I am putting a projector in my media room and would like to run an IR tab to it rather than try and rely on using the IR blaster from across the room.

[Uncle Michael]

I've had good performance using Cat5, even for runs of 50 feet or more. Some people recommend a shielded cable, but I find that the twisted pair is a pretty effective isolation mechanism and have not identified any noise problems using UTP.

[chewie]

Thanks Mike. In order to do that how are you wiring it? Are you putting a 3mm female jack on each end and just plugging in the gc cable to the end of that?

[Uncle Michael]

I just use crimp connectors to attach the leads to the wires in the cat5. In effect, I cut the normal IR wire into a 'plug' end and a 'jack' end and splice as much cat5 in the middle as I need. (Caveats: I normally use powered Xantech junction blocks. I don't have direct experience with GC, but I don't see any reason that it should behave differently.)

[chewie]

Cool, thanks again Mike! I will give this a shot with my Global Cache unit and report back.