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Where to buy Long Monitor Cable

  • 09-04-2007 5:04pm
    #1
    dvdfan
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,953 ✭✭✭


    Hey,

    I need 25ft of pc monitor cable. I'll try and explain this but basically i have 1 Electronic Cash Registers in my shop. By day the till is at the end of the queue as you come in the door and this cant change. By night it converts to a chipper and the shutter comes down where the queue would start so the till needs to come up the other end.

    /////If you dont want to know the whole explanation why i need 25 ft of cable just scroll to the end but i said id include it because its a strange situation/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////

    Rather than buying 2 tills ive come up with the following solution. I will have a short monitor cable coming out of the pc up on to the counter for the till i use during the day (we will call this the bottom till) the touch screen monitor will connect directly into this and work for the bottom till.

    Then for night time (Top Till) i will need to move the touch screen up the other end. I will have a till at both ends by the way. Instead of disconnecting the pc and moving it every day i was going to run a 25 ft cable from the bottom till to the top till, i would then disconnect the touch screen from the bottom end and connect it to the 25ft monitor cable at the top end. However then i would need some sort of an adapter where i could connect the small monitor cable which is already connected to the pc to the 25 ft cable.

    I could just connect the 25ft cable directly to the pc but the pc is under a counter and its very awkward to get at the the back of it.


    /////End of explanation of why i need this cable////////////////////////////////
    So in summary i need 25ft of monitor cable and some sort of adpater that will let me connect the 25ft monitor cable and the shorter 3ft monitor cable together.

    Does anyone know wheres the best place to buy this or who could help me, i know theres a few boardsies that do network cable so maybe theres someone that can do this kind of cable or an online store??


Comments

  • #2
    leeroybrown
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,563 ✭✭✭leeroybrown


    Have a look in the monitor cables section on Komplett. You should be able to find the correct combination of length and connectors there.

    If you are near a Maplin store they should have what you need in stock off the shelf but I wouldn't be surprised if it were dearer even without the postage costs.


  • #3
    Snowbat
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,065 ✭✭✭Snowbat


    For a touchscreen you will also need either a PS/2 or USB extension cable for input functionality, depending on which your screen uses. If USB you'll need to put a USB hub in the middle as the maximum permitted cable length between USB interfaces is 5m.

    You'll need a KVM switch for switching. Make sure to get one with the correct ports for your hardware.


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