Making LONG RCA cables for interior walls?

**bosstone74** · 08-15-2004, 09:56 PM

I'm wiring my living room with some RCA cabling (I think). I am going to be running about 50 feet of right channel, 50 feet of left, and 50 feet of Video. And this is basically for my PS2 so I can just put it under the couch. (rather than having it dragged accross the room) After doing some searching I found THIS site that talks about making RCA cabling from CAT5. I wanted to know your opinions?
If this is a horrible idea, what are some other options?

thanks!

**krypt2nite** · 08-15-2004, 10:04 PM

I dont know much about the quality of this but check this out
http://www.trianglecables.com/75-foo...ono-cable.html

**Pudge** · 08-15-2004, 10:31 PM

our church uses like a 100 foot video RCA cable, so I don't think that'll be a problem. As far as audio goes... cat 5 would probably work, it's been done. From what I understand, which is contrary to the myth, it's not sheilded in anyway, so you might run into issues, but other people say it sounds just as good, if not better. I say, what the heck, cat 5 isn't that expensive anymore.

**TruckinMP3** · 08-15-2004, 10:38 PM

I think you can buy that length. I am sure I have purchased 30 foot RCAs

**d_sellers1** · 08-15-2004, 10:42 PM

Take a look at the gauge wires in RCAs compared to CAT5. The thinner the wire, the less signal you will be able to push through it.

Here's my first link from a Google search for "50 foot RCA" and I came up with this: http://www.trianglecables.com/50footrcadua.html.

You can find 2RCA, 3RCA, 5RCA (component), 2RCA with S-Video. Look for something that is Male-to-Female so you won't need any couplers.

Derek

**lawrence** · 08-15-2004, 11:40 PM

did the shorter lenth of cable about 30ft. imo dont use cat 5. goto home dopot gat a roll of three wire lamp cord. use two leads for your rca and the third put an eyelet on and ground the eyelet to the chassie of your imput device ( tuner,amp,ect)
NOT THE PC.
keep all audio cables at least 8 inches apart and 12 inches for the video.
if you can try to use optical for your audio
also at those lenthes you may also need a distrubition amp, get a adjustable with discret chanels, so you dont over drive the video when try to get audio level proper.

**nzKAOSnz** · 08-17-2004, 01:48 AM

y not jst buy rca wire in a roll? then put some connecters on each end........

**robiewp** · 08-17-2004, 02:09 AM

search. there was a very very long discussion about the use of cat5 cables for audio.

I wouldn't do it. Others have done it and think its fine.

**bosstone74** · 09-05-2004, 02:06 AM

If anyone is interested...this is what I did with about 60 feet of CAT5, I got left and right audio and 1 video line from it and it looks and sounds great! (through my PS2) Man SOCOM is SO GREAT!
http://www.s10forum.com/forum/showth...threadid=32896