Something hardware related after a long time readers. This is going to be a little technical and let me tell you something; you got to try at your home. I’ve done this myself and it has worked 5 out of 6 times. So, we all know how much difficult it is to find a long VGA cord and even if you do find it, it is going to be pretty expensive. This is the problem which personally I faced when I was looking for a little longer VGA cable and I couldn’t find any and as I was Googling over the internet I came across a post where they had written a post of making a VGA cord out of CAT5 cable. I gave it a shot and it worked and then I was like; I have to write about it for my readers. A friend of mine was asking me if similar can be done and HDMI cable can be made because he needed something like 50 foot HDMI cable. I am not sure about that though.
I’m not saying it is easy though but I’ve uploaded the picture too so that it will be a little easier for your understanding.
STEP 1: Strip the CAT5 cable. Strip about half inches of the CAT5 outer insulation. Don’t strip too long; that would risk being short circuit. Well, that’s what was written in the instructions. So, then you have 8 colored wires.
STEP 2: Now you have to solder the colored wires to the VGA connector. Wait!! Did I mention that you need to buy a VGA connector and of course you need soldering stuffs too? The best connectors are male ones (again it was mentioned in the instruction and I don’t have a clue about it). So, solder it as in the image shown below. I don’t think it should be that hard.
STEP 3: Do the same thing (STEP 1 to STEP 2) in the other side too and it’s done. But just to make it all look tidy a little bit, what you can do is get some VGA connector housings and cover it up. Now you can check if it works. If it doesn’t there must be something wrong with the wiring. Re-check it and try again.
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