Long run of VGA

[museav]

Originally Posted by firewater88

you will be fine. I have run many different setups, but the last one was about 60' of extensions run from stage to an ancient A/B vga box at FOH to switch my Mac and stage inputs. It then goes from A/B box via 100' of older VGA cable to a powered DA a the projectors (I twin stack mine). All running 1024x768 with no problems. In fact the presenter showed up with a little netbook with his presentation on it and it ran just fine. My extensions are 10'ers and seem to resemble the ones you are using.

I'm glad it works for you but I would be careful about declaring that it will work in general. I have had some similar experiences but I have also had experiences where less than 50' of generic VGA cable caused problems. And that is the problem, there is a difference between something that you know should work and something that may work and dealing with unknowns such as the specifics of the cable that virtually forces any situation into the latter category.

[rwhealey]

We had a group come in with a cheap VGA cable (50 or so feet) and every time somebody talked into a wireless mic, the picture quality would go to hell.

They came back the next time with bulans + Cat5, and it worked perfectly, and was an easier to handle cable