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- From: art@acc.com (Art Berggreen)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans.ethernet
- Subject: Re: Mixing RG58/U and RG-59 cable
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.210958.3774@acc.com>
- Date: 21 Jul 92 21:09:58 GMT
- References: <2017@tivoli.UUCP> <1992Jul20.183415.19005@sci34hub.sci.com> <10992@rls.UUCP>
- Organization: ACC, Advanced Computer Communications
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- In article <10992@rls.UUCP> randy@rls.UUCP (randy) writes:
- >How do you go about determining the length of thin line cable that
- >wasn't installed too terribly well? I have some cable run in a rambling
- >and looping fashion throughout the laboratories. A great deal of the
- >cable is behind walls or above ceilings and we need to know what it will
- >take to expand. Anyone?
-
- Well, if you have control over both ends, have a good fast
- oscilloscope and a pulse generator you could try the following.
- (or go borrow a real Time Domain Reflectometer ;>} )
-
- Leaving the remote end open, drive the local end with the pulse
- generator. Use the oscilloscope to measure the time from a pulse
- edge to the time the primary reflection is seen. Multiply half of
- this time by the propagation velocity for the particular type of
- coax. The propagation velocity can vary between about 0.6-0.8c
- depending on exactly what flavor of coax being used. If you can't
- get the exact number 0.66c is a good guestimate.
-
- Art
-