Re: CAT5 Stranded Patch cable 305m?

[Kevin Hawkins <yahoogroupskh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Not usre you'll worry too much about this but the exterior grade CAT5
cable has a different sheathing , normally black in colour.  Apparently
the interior use grey/coloured cable can suffer cracking in cold weather
and also breaks down based on UV radiation.

K

On 13/01/2010 13:39, Tracey Gardner wrote:
> Hello Ben
>
> It's going to be used outside and I'd prefer it to be stranded rather
than
> run the risk of the solid cored type breaking.
>
> Thanks
>
> Tracey
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ben McCormack"<yahoogroup@xxxxxxx>
> To:<ukha_d@xxxxxxx>
> Sent: Wednesday, January 13, 2010 1:16 PM
> Subject: Re: [ukha_d] CAT5 Stranded Patch cable 305m?
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>> Does it have to be stranded?
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>> On 13 Jan 2010, at 13:01, Tracey Gardner wrote:
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>>> I'm looking for a box of the above to use as a control cable.
>>> I've done lots of Googling but it all looks a bit too
expensive for my
>>> taste
>>> :-)
>>> Does anybody know of a cheap source?
>>> It doesn't need to be a full box, I need about 130m, which
rules out
>>> using
>>> readily available 100m drums of multicore stranded cable.
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>> Tracey
>>>
>>>
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