Economy in Building Snakes

AVare · Post by **AVare** » Sat Jul 30, 2005 5:58 am

As far as capacitance, what's a reasonable value per foot for quality cable?

Standard high quality mic cable is around 25 pf/ft. With the distances you wrote earlier (50 and 10 feet) standard high quality mic cable is fine.

Andre

phyl · Post by **phyl** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 1:17 am

Thanks all.

Here's some input from the folks at ProSoundWeb.

http://srforums.prosoundweb.com/index.p ... #msg_66381

knightfly · Post by **knightfly** » Sun Jul 31, 2005 9:21 am

Didn't see much to argue with there - again, if you have much in the way of NON-balanced, Pro-sumer gear I'd worry more about capacitance - otherwise, if you have a LOT of wiring to do I'd shop more for ease of termination and noise immunity (star quad type wires for the latter, foil shields (with drain wire) for the former, and work really hard to avoid any ground loops (telescoping shields, star grounding, etc )

This is probably the best single source for valuable wiring info I've ever seen -

http://www.rane.com/note110.html

HTH... Steve

Post by **Aaronw** » Tue Aug 02, 2005 7:06 am

Phyl,

I tried to send an email, but it looks like it bounced back.

Drop me a PM.

Aaron

phyl · Post by **phyl** » Fri Aug 05, 2005 12:18 am

Aaronw wrote:Phyl,

I tried to send an email, but it looks like it bounced back.

Drop me a PM.

Aaron

Check your PMs

jeffjazz · Post by **jeffjazz** » Sun Nov 13, 2005 6:48 pm

Hi, i saw this gepco wire spec: 11-21 pF/ft

http://www.gepco.com/products/proav_cab ... single.htm

so far it's the lowest capacitance aes wire i can find...