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Max length of an optical cable?
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| Topic: | Max length of an optical cable? This thread has 11 replies. Displaying all posts. |
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| Post 1 made on Thursday July 8, 2004 at 14:42 |
Tom Ciaramitaro Loyal Member |
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A client wants to interconnect a megachanger in a listening room that is 30' or so from the home theater system and would like to interconnect so he can listen to CDs in the HT area.
How long can an optic cable be without any problems?
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| Post 2 made on Thursday July 8, 2004 at 14:57 |
Fred Harding Super Member |
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Monster Cable makes a 20' toslink.
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On the West Coast of Wisconsin |
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| Post 3 made on Thursday July 8, 2004 at 15:26 |
thefish Founding Member |
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there are also optical couplers avaliable that I've used, but not for 30'.
no coax avaliable?
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| Post 4 made on Thursday July 8, 2004 at 15:44 |
jputtcamp Long Time Member |
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There are also optical to coax digital and back adaptors so you can run some coax 300 feet or so. I get them from MCM, the company name is 'Digital Audio' best I can tell from the box. They also make optical repeaters.
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| Post 5 made on Thursday July 8, 2004 at 17:59 |
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Here is a site that has them up to 30 meters in length. [Link: lifatec.com]I haven't used them so can't vouch for them.
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| Post 6 made on Thursday July 8, 2004 at 18:05 |
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We had Tributaries make us a 30m and it worked no problem.
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| Post 7 made on Thursday July 8, 2004 at 21:35 |
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ditto deb1919,
I gotten 30M (99 feet) from Tributaries in the past, worked fine.
Take great care though...it's a LOT of fragile glass (or perhaps plastic), either way...it should wourk for you to run thirty feet.
I know that...ughhh...gack....avad....has proflex models in 30-45 foot lengths as well!
avdude
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| Post 8 made on Thursday July 8, 2004 at 22:24 |
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I know that...ughhh...gack....avad....has proflex
models in 30-45 foot lengths as well How dare you use words like that. Didn't your mother ever chase you down with a bar of soap?
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| OP | Post 9 made on Friday July 9, 2004 at 15:38 |
Tom Ciaramitaro Loyal Member |
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Hmm, AVAD N. California only goes to 12' length.
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| Post 10 made on Wednesday July 14, 2004 at 19:50 |
Try IXOS.
If they do not manufacture a standard length that would work for you, I believe you can order custom made cables.
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| Post 11 made on Saturday July 17, 2004 at 19:04 |
JBJ SYSTEMS Advanced Member |
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With POF which is what toslink cables are, you can safely run them up to 150' feet according to Belden. P.S. I recommend making your own POF cabling...saves a lot of $$$
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| Post 12 made on Friday July 30, 2004 at 11:29 |
mr2channel Select Member |
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Tom you can run fiber a bazillion miles, but if the run exceeds the output capablities of the source device then you will need to apply optical repeater(s) to keep the signal from falling short. With all that being said, based on what you are doing you should have no problems and not need a repeater, but if you do, you now know what to do, just make sure that you run a CL2/CL3 or higher rated optical cable so you are up to code.
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