+1 on your radio suggestion. On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 19:45 Tomas Kuchta <tomas.kuchta.li...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I literally stumbled on internally broken wire - 13mm (1/2" for readers in > Zimbabwe) from the cable end. Somehow it connected when clamping the ends > together to measure them. Thankfully, there was enough difference when > measuring wire pair capacitance from the broken end. > > The wire strand got cut by the cable jacket cutter - part of my fancy > crumpling tool. The cable runs at 1Gb/s as it should. > > Well, it is likely the most expensive patch cable I had ever owned - hand > crafted and individually tested! > > And it is probably one jeti foot too short the next time I need to use it. > > Probably one of the most painful ways to waste Sunday afternoon. Actually, > that is an exacerbation, accidentally listening to the WH breefing for the > second time was way more painful this afternoon. > > I recommend All Classical to avoid other media morbid obsession in milking > every little Covid bad news over and over. > > -T > > On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 16:03 Rich Shepard <rshep...@appl-ecosys.com> wrote: > > > On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, Russell Senior wrote: > > > > > I would really like a time domain reflectometer so that when I screw > up a > > > crimp I can tell which end I screwed up. > > > > They're rather pricey for occasional use. Sigh. > > > > > ... then cut off the worst looking end retry the crimp until either > > > it works or I run out of cable. > > > > In my case I'd add when my fingers start cramping and don't want to hold > > the > > wires in the right order. > > > > Rich > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > _______________________________________________ > PLUG mailing list > PLUG@pdxlinux.org > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug