I have a new setup for my bedroom.... I am putting all the equipment in the basement right below the bedroom, plasma is on the wall, I need to make my IR blaster cable longer by about 20ft longer. Anyone done this yet... I only need 1 blaster to go up for the plasma.

My Panasonic Pro plasma doesn't even have a power button on it either...

Could I just cut the wire and splice it with a longer run...?

Thanks

Yes, you can use CAT5/5E and probably get a 50 foot run easily. If you find that signal is too low, bump it up to "High Output" on extender and retest.

Excellent Lyndel... I appreciate your help... that makes it so easy... Oh and cheap too !!!! :)

IR systems are rather trivial at the output point the following is genrally not an issue,

Cable runs in the 100 foot range using 22-24 gauge wire. Xantech system will handle thousand foot runs. Multiple emitters at the cable end all wired in series.

I classically run 100-150 feet with 4 emitters at the active end. As Lyndel said it all depends on how much power is being put down the wire. All emitters I know of have a little resistor in the case or somewhere along the line to avoid a short on the output side of the device putting out the signal. Sometimes the device also has a resistor. Lowering the value of these current limiting resistor increases the available signal at the end of the cable.