Soldering VGA plugs

[Driller]

Anyone done this in a multimedia home cinema set up type affair?

VGA cable to bare ends pulls through conduit with just the soldering to do to the wall plate. Trouble is the ferrules on the ends of the cable mean that the wires are too short to reach all the contacts at once

I'm off to attach some little extension pieces using speaker or network cable but is there a better way of doing this aside from stripping the VGA cable and losing the ferrules?

[Driller]

Well I 've done a lot of fking around with tiny wires in my time and that was a right fiddly pain in the arse

[cjs]

You can get VGA wall plates with screw terminals on the back, much easier than soldering.

http://cpc.farnell.com/jsp/displayProduct.jsp?sku=...

[Driller]

Thanks for the shout, in fact I've got one like that too, doesn't change the fact that the wires are too short and you have strip them thus losing the ferrules. In the end I used thermo conduit.

What I'd like to know is does it matter if the respective red, blue and green earths touch? ( don't feel experimenting and having a flash bang but it would have made life easier)

[cjs]

Why worry about the ferrules? I never do on any installed cable. Just remove them and make sure there are ferrules on the lead from the wall plate to the TV.

[Driller]

cjs said:

Why worry about the ferrules? I never do on any installed cable. Just remove them and make sure there are ferrules on the lead from the wall plate to the TV.

By ferrules I meant the heat shrink insulation around the ends of the wires. Stripping back the cable removes these hence my query above about the respective earth leads around red, blue and green shorting out or not.

Is it not a problem if they touch then?

[headcase]

Im pretty sure all of the earths in the VGA run down the center row of pins if i remember correctly, in which case its not going to explode of you bond them all together.

[Driller]

Thanks for the info