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Post by jayson on May 17, 2015 13:52:48 GMT -6
So I just pulled the trigger on a used Fireface 800 (hey, if I'm gonna keep building DIY gear - of course more i/o is gonna be handy . The rack I'm wanting to put it in is a probably going to need about a fifteen foot run back to the CPU, anybody know what the cutoff is for length on FW800? There doesn't seem to be any problem finding cables that length -and in shopping I've seen a few that are quite a bit longer - but how reliably is it going to work? How long is too long?
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Post by Ward on May 17, 2015 14:31:26 GMT -6
I've never had any issues with 15-20 ft Firewire cables.
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Post by jayson on May 18, 2015 4:42:11 GMT -6
Thanks! I kind of figured that there wouldn't be any problem with that length since cables that size are pretty easy to find, but since I've never run a FW cable that far I wanted to be sure I wasn't asking for trouble. I've found them running to 10 meters (33 feet), just out curiosity has anybody tried running one that far?
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Post by Deleted on May 18, 2015 13:18:34 GMT -6
Longest i have run was a 7 meter cable. It was no prob.
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