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Extending VGA over UTP cat5 cable

Feb 6th, 2009 by Peter.

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There are several reasons to extend a VGA cable. A Media Center PC is a great tool to manage your music, movies, pictures etc. To avoid a noisy computer blowing in your ears while watching a movie a VGA extension cable could be a great help. Mounting your home theatre beamer on the ceiling is a good idea, but how to get there with the VGA signal? Extend it using cheap cat5 UTP cable! Connect the cables as listed in the following table. Wire both connectors the same way. Pin Signal CAT5 Conductor 1 Red Orange 2 Green Green 3 Blue Blue 4 No Connection 5 Ground No Connection 6 Ground Orange/White 7 Ground Green/White 8 Ground Blue/White 9 No Connection 10 Ground No Connection 11 No Connection 12 DDC DAT No Connection 13 Horizontal Synchronization Brown 14 Vertical Synchronization Brown White 15 DDC Clock No Connection

The only drawback is the slightly notable ghosting as a result of the difference in impedance with a regular VGA cable. With the extension I use (12m) the ghosting is only visible when showing black text on a whte background. But since the beamer is only used to watch movies, television and pictures I never had complaints about the quality. If you really want to improve the quality, an STP cable could be the solution. Social bookmarking:

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1 Comment on Extending VGA over UTP cat5 cable

1. #1 Marc on Feb 7th, 2009 at 1:15 am Should I solder the utp cable directly to the connector? Or is it possible to use a RJ45 connector and a normal network cable?

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