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Gear / Technical Help => Cables => Topic started by: Weekendshooter on October 31, 2005, 09:51:38 AM
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Hello All,
Went wandering at the Fry's over the weekend and happened upon some retractable cables (USB, Firewire, Cat 5 & phone cord). They look very attractive to reduce the volume of field kit cables down to ~ 1/4th of the space I'm packing around these days. They're sort of like this:
[connector end] ----- [spring wound spool] ---- [connector end]
The wire gauge appears much thinner and there's obviously less shielding so I'm curious if they'll carry enough amps to run bus powered external drives & converters off the lappie, if they're prone to rfi glitching, and if they hold up well in battle... :-)
Anybody have any feedback on these?
Much obliged :guitarist: