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RedlineAudioPerformance
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I have just picked up a new Term Lab and it came with a 25 Cat 5 cable for connection. This works just fine.

I ordered a 50 ft and 100 ft Cat 6 cable to get some more length But when using them the meter floats around and gives erronus reading.

Are the cables Bad or is this just somehing I cant do?
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Wayne Harris
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I have heard of other competitors using longer cables with no problems. You must be very careful when making cables or using cables that did not come with Term-LAB. You especially need to make sure that the cables are standard CAT5 (cat5e) ethernet cables. If you use a "crossover" cable, it will ruin your sensor.

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RedlineAudioPerformance
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They were both Standard Cat 6, Ordered from Newegg. Same cables I use every day for Network connections.
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The longest I have used were 150 feet with no problems

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I wire alot of homes for audio and automation,
You might have the right cable cat5e but there are 2 ways to wire the plug A and B make sure you have the right way.

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RedlineAudioPerformance
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So I found some info on plug a and plug B

http://www.lanshack.com/make-cat5E.aspx

Which one is the correct way to pin the wire?
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I bought a set of 50ftrs and had no problems with them at a show this past weekend.

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The standard in which most all patch cords are terminated is 568b. You should have no data loss or fluctuation up to 100m which translates to 330 feet from end of patch cord to end of patch cord.

so if your looking at the end of the patch cable you should see white orange/orange/white green/blue/white blue/green/white brown/brown.
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I ran two different lengths of cable one is standard with the TL box and the other is 75 , it meters fine but at low volums it has a total different resistance for bass race

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