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Posted: **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?

Posted: **Thu Oct 06, 2005 11:46 pm**

Is it the braided shield?

Posted: **Fri Oct 07, 2005 2:33 am**

No, it's not braided.

Posted: **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.

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Mogami cable: drain wire and shielding together?

Mogami cable: drain wire and shielding together?