I'm building some snakes to run my preamps to and from my patchbay using 16 channel Mogami snake cable. Each channel has a drain wire and served (spiral) bare copper shield. Do I solder both of these twisted together as one? I'm not using crimp connectors, but if I was, what would I do with the copper wires?
Mogami cable: drain wire and shielding together?
Originally posted at johnlsayers.com, topic 4471.
Is it the braided shield?
No, it's not braided.
I normally just cut off the copper and use the drain wire for the shield connection. Much easier for soldering.