Balun & AV

Yes, works great, they are really required when the runs start getting more than 50 or 100 feet to get a good picture. What is your question?

Martin Custer

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Hi

Does anyone have any experiemce of using a Balun for distributing AV using CAT5?

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Works like a charm. Actually, sometimes you don't even need to use a balun. Depends on your distances.

What exactly would you like to know?

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Do the picture/sound degrade?

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Nothing specific really. It depends on your acceptable level of picture quality. Normally you should be goot for about 100 feet or so without baluns.

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I agree with Martin, 100 feet would do just fine. We run 25-75 ft almost every day in schools (a link between a teacher's outlet and a projector location that's below the ceiling in the middle of the classroom), and have done tests for up to 125ft. No visually detectable picture quality degradation over (good quality) CAT5E cable.

On the question of pinouts: that's the thing with non-standard applications: you can pick your own pinout. Just make sure you use the same pinout on both ends.

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