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HD CONNECTIVITY LTD, trading as HDANYWHERE registered in England and Wales. Company No: 06046737 Registered office: Unit 23 Link Business Centre, Link Way, Malvern, Worcestershire, WR14 1UQ. Contact: [email protected] Tel: 00441684575324
CABLES & WIRING
Notes on your network cabling
Notes on your HDMI cabling
Optimum performance
Shielded cables
Patch panels and wall plates
Currently you can use Cat5e, Cat6, Cat6e, Cat6a, Cat7 or Cat7a with HDA products.
DO NOT USE COPPER CLAD ALUMINIUM (CCA) Cat 5/6/7 CABLE.
The baseline cable standard for HDanywhere systems is Cat5e. Greater distances
and reliability can be achieved by using Cat6, or slightly better still with the Cat7,
which have thicker copper cores and shielding for easier signal transfer.
HDANYWHERE recommends using suitably robust, good quality HDMI cables. It is not
advised to use passive HDMI cables over 5 metres in length either on the inputs or the
outputs of the matrix hub or display receivers.
In circumstances where HDMI cables longer than 5 metres are required, HDA
recommends utilising an Active HDMI cable option, optical-fibre or similar.
Terminate the cabling using RJ45 connectors to the 568B wiring standard (shown
below).
Whichever network cable type you choose, ensure that the main wiring architecture
is ‘solid core’, not stranded ‘patch’ cabling. Patch cabling can be used for the last few
metres of a run (say from a wallplate) but should be avoided over the longer runs as
signal transfer over stranded cores is heavily reduced. The use of pre-made leads is
not recommended unless you can be absolutely sure of their construction credentials
(i.e. solid core 568B). For absolute optimum performance, use a single piece of Cat
cable terminated directly at the transmitter and the receiver ends. Make sure to use
the correct connector types i.e. RJ45 solid core crimp connectors.
Unlike other systems, shielded FTP cable is not a stipulation. If however you preferred
this type of cable please ensure compatible shielded accessories are used. Failure to
terminate cable screen at all points can induce interference rather than eliminating it.
If the patch panels are terminated correctly, there is minimal loss of distance, however
the use of wallplates and patch panels has the potential to cause increased resistance
on the cable, introducing pinch points for signal transmission, and could reduce
advertised transmission lengths.
TIP – instead of using RJ45 wallplates, use brush plates instead to maintain the neat finish.
A search for “brush plates” will yield many results.
Connection termination
