[Robotgroup] I'm on Boing Boing... for cables...?

[TomD]

I don't pull them that tight, I just took a look at a cable,
it's at least 10 diameters at the tightest part.

Yeah, something like high end coax or fiber is going to get wound on a spool, that stuff's expensive.

Evan Harris wrote:
> 
> I'm not sure I would recommend your method for use with Cat5/Cat6 
> ethernet cables.  I don't have a reference handy, but if you read the 
> installation and handling specs for many kinds of high speed data 
> cabling, you'll find that you usually aren't allowed to exceed a certain 
> minimum bend radius, and what you have described would make it very easy 
> to kink the cables and significantly impact the noise immunity and 
> long-term service life of those types of cables.
> 
> The bend radius varies with the type of cable, but is often 4-10x the 
> outer diameter of the cable for copper cables, up to multiple feet for 
> smaller optical fiber lines or larger stiffer coax lines.
> 
> Evan
> 
> 
> On Thu, 7 Feb 2008, TomD wrote:
> 
>> A musican friend showed me a trick for cables, he was a keyboardist with
>> a big MIDI setup.
>>
>> Take the cable and fold it in half, ends together.
>> Then keep folding until it's short enough to tie a
>> simple, but loose overhand knot. It will stay tied
>> in a box, it does take up a little more room than
>> tightly coiled cables, but no ties are needed, nor
>> will they tangle when you untie the overhand.
>>
>> It probably wont work for a 100 ft extension, or really stiff cords.
>> But for everything from earbud cords to Cat6 to SCSI cables, it works 
>> well.
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