Comments on: Glowing patch cables

By: chamunks

chamunks — Sat, 21 Mar 2009 09:55:30 +0000

Video Pulled… Mirror?

By: Snark

Snark — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 12:21:43 +0000

Nice!

But the music sounds more like “When you’re falling” from Peter Gabriel than “Psychotic reaction” from Count Five :-) .

By: charlie

charlie — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 06:21:23 +0000

neat. i like el wire. interference is a serious issue though. i don’t think the issue would be in the strand of cable as much as at the power source. lots of switching noise. a proper rc circuit should be able to isolate the noise. i’m still trying to wrap my head around the calculations for that. btw, neonstring is a good supplier.

By: califrag

califrag — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 04:32:04 +0000

@carl
thanks for that patchsee link… the cables are surprisingly cheap and the idea is ingenious. using the fiber optics and a flashing light.. man that’s just cake. i even ordered a demonstration kit to see how it works. thanks again!

By: Decepticon

Decepticon — Mon, 16 Mar 2009 01:35:26 +0000

It may be easier to find cables if they were ORGANIZED! A numbered cable system is much easier to navigate than that pile o’ spaghetti.

By: dokieh

dokieh — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 23:03:38 +0000

Nice invention, though I think it would be much better just without any cables :P See ya. Campaign 2.2

By: Dan Fruzzetti

Dan Fruzzetti — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:08:30 +0000

@ anonymous:

A messy rack indeed. Everyone knows the only time to do a rack right is at installation; if you try to ‘right’ a rack at any other time, it is much more an ordeal of removing, tracing, unravelling, and (nine times out of ten this is the long part) shortening all the wires because you were finally able to put them away in the traps leaving surplus wire (to the tune of carefully stripping a jacket, carefully arranging the eight wires contained within, carefully placing them inside a jack head, shoving hard to make sure all eight connectors make it to their crush terminals, and crimping).

the surplus wire must be removed, and even with the best tools and technique it’s a time consuming process. it’s way more efficient to make a semi-permanent decision and stick to it at the planning phase.

By: tusk

tusk — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:04:28 +0000

These come in a .4mm variety, and 4.5V. It would be a cool hack to make a backlit keyboard with this.

By: oneahmed

oneahmed — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 22:00:53 +0000

WoW. this is a great inventory but it may costs much to buy this type of cable

By: Jason

Jason — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 21:37:43 +0000

I usually just put a label on each end of the cable.

http://www.hometoys.com/ezine/08.06/trainingreels/labeling.htm

By: jim

jim — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 18:31:19 +0000

just use LEDs to light the jacks

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 16:54:51 +0000

Too bad running any PoE devices off those cables (phones, etc) would eliminate the possibility of a patch cable rave.

By: David

David — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 13:41:35 +0000

Crash and Burn!

By: arcnemisis

arcnemisis — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 12:26:30 +0000

neat in concept… I would like ti see it used elsewhere
very poor wire management practices
If you can’t find the cable easy maybe you should rewire the rack.

By: Alan

Alan — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 11:56:53 +0000

The problem is that only labs have cabling that messy.