[mythtv-users] IR Transmitter

[David]

All cat-5 is multi-cored (each core has its own insulation)

You can get flexible cat-5 (for patch cables) and non-flexible (goes 
between patch panels)
In non-flexible each core is single stranded or solid core.
In the flexible stuff I think each core is multi-stranded.

Think about mains wiring - the stuff behind the sockets is solid core, 
the stuff in the leads is stranded.

You rarely want the solid core stuff unless you're wiring up a building 
- bend it or kink it and it *will* break :)

David

Dan Morphis wrote:

>> CAT 5 cable is stranded (read soft), it won’t push into the
>> solderless bread board. What works very well is some old solid phone
>> cable (the cable that’s ran in your walls, not the soft kind that is
>> going from jack to phone).
>
>
> Cat 5 is stranded, which is why I said to seperate them :-)  The 
> individual wires themselves aren't stranded (At least on the half 
> dozen or so different wires I've used or hacked apart.
>
> -dan
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