cat 5/6 cable

[Daveo]

Hi
thanks for the reply, do you use the shielded cable and if so how do you terminate or what do you connect the shielded part to.

[JAZZCNC]

Hi
thanks for the reply, do you use the shielded cable and if so how do you terminate or what do you connect the shielded part to.

Yes and no. Yes, I use a shielded cable but if the wire runs are short, less than say 500mm then I don't bother messing around with wiring the shields. The twisted pairs are enough to not get any troubles with RF.
However, if you want to cross the T's and Dot the I's then to terminate just wire one end of the shield to the main Star Earth point.