Mogami cable: drain wire and shielding together?

ozzyosmond · Post by **ozzyosmond** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 1:05 pm

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?

Post by **Aaronw** » Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:46 pm

Is it the braided shield?

ozzyosmond · Post by **ozzyosmond** » Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:33 am

No, it's not braided.

Post by **Aaronw** » Sat Oct 08, 2005 2:19 am

I normally just cut off the copper and use the drain wire for the shield connection. Much easier for soldering.