On March 31, 2012 at 18:58, adamav said...
Brent can you elaborate on your statement ?, Or anybody from snap av - if it is true ? I was always told that shielded wire without a proper termination ( drain to equipment / both ends - depending on type of connector ) is absolutely useless , and the only thing worst than wire without terminated drain is the wire with terminated shield ( drain ) on one end only - it is basically a definition of an antenna . Why transmit side only ? , when soldering drain wire would it make more sense to solder that wire on both ends ( when proper CAT5/6 connectors are not available ) ?
The purpose of the shield in this case is to drain any emited RF away from the signal wire. The best way (that we have found) to do this is to drain the noise to one side (just like dealing with radiated noise in the mobile world) to the ground on on a surge protector/AVR (Tx side) or ground terminal adaptor on the Rx side.
