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Location: Lincoln UK | With Transducer cables being the length they are would it harm them in any way to shorten them and have a plug connector along the length? I know that it would invalidate the warranty but does it work OK? |
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Location: Algonquin, ILL | Chico: I would not cut the cable, just fold it over on it's self to shorten and secure with tie wraps or electrical tape
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Location: Lafayette, IN | I agree. I'm no electrical expert but with depth finders tending to be so sensitive to outside interferrence I wouldn't want to cut the factory insulation and risk exposing the signal to any additional corrosion or RF noise. Maybe I'm just chicken.....(or turkey!)  |
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Location: milwaukee | I agree with the other two posts.
If you cut it, the very best way to reconnect is to solder - even with a connector in the middle. But sometimes that cable has an aluminum shield conductor instead of copper, and aluminum is impossible to solder. So then you'd have to use some sort of crimp connector, which eventually *will* corrode in the environment a typical fishing boat is exposed to.
Even with copper conductors, soldering and addition of heat shrink wrap insulation you are going to expose that connection to moisture. It probably could be done, but not recommended.
Just coil up the excess and stow it away, neatly secured with some wire ties.
Edited by EsoxRookie 3/15/2006 12:38 PM
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Location: Lincoln UK | thanks for those, shortening isn't a worry, I have a whole avionic section where I work and we they make cables, my worry was thart the set up "Knew" they length of cable set and shortening might give false readings. Best left alone I think. |
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Transducer cable shortening