On Sunday 15 June 2014 16:29:46 Bruce Layne did opine And Gene did reply: > On 06/15/2014 03:57 PM, Gene Heskett wrote: > > I'll ask Jim if he ever bought any stranded cat5 or cat6 > > the next time I stop by. I don't think it existed 13 years ago when > > I was last in the middle of it. Which could explain why I haven't > > heard of it now. > > As previously mentioned, there are ethernet patch cables that are made > of stranded cable to be flexible, and there are others that are made of > high flex cable rated for continuous flexing. Mesa Electronics uses > ethernet cables for remote serial I/O. I bought a long piece of the > high flex ethernet cable on eBay and ran it through some cable chain on > the giant gantry router LinuxCNC retrofit. That's an easy and > convenient way to communicate to a big block of external I/O. Kudos to > Peter for that cleverness. > Yup. good idea. I looked around for some mini cable chain, something I could hide inside the tables screw channels, but the smallest I could find was still about 2x what it would take. I'll probably wind up fixing it to the ends of the tables & just let it swing on its way up the post, and thence to the electronics on a shelf in the "attic". Motor cables have been hanging down from there for several years & they don't seem to have minded.
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