Thread: What cable for the LCD to the trunk?

Lesson number 1: Never go to a main stream computer store for a cable. If you can find one go to your local "mom and pop computer shop" you should be able to find a cable for less. I would definatly have to say that it isnt worth the trouble to make a parrallel cable. I use a 10' printer cable, and it works just fine. If you cant find a local store, you can just find it for $2 on www.pricewatch.com of course you will still bay $8 for shipping, but that is still less than the $25 at best buy.

Lesson #2: after a couple of hours of trying to solder the 72 connections (36 on each end, you're gonna wish you had spent the $25 on that printer cable, because it probably wont work the first time you do it.

Personal experience.

Just make it yourself. Buy the cable, plugs, solder and some heatshrink tubing to put over each connection once soldered works well to stop the possible shorting of the printer wires being close together on the printer plug. Dont worry about interference, you are only covering a few meters and the data between the PC to the LCD is a slow data transfer rate....

Parallel cables are only 25 pins, so that's only 50 connections... which would still suck

I got a 25' cable for $5 at the good ol' local computer shop.

Also, I didn't have and problems running my lcd off of a 25' parallel cable.