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Re: shielding the serial cable
i actully have turned old serial cables into can cables. let me warn you now that as rosy as it sounds with all of the shielding, getting that type of cable to work and work well is a challange... doable but still a pain if you are not careful and lucky. the gauge of wire used for the rj-12 is somewhat difficult to strip and solder witout breaking... it takes a lot of skill to get it right. get it wrong and a few days after you made the cable, the solder breaks and the cable dies. not a lot of fun to fix.

my team is using the db9 to rj12 adapter with a terminator in the db9-half and standard flat 6p cable. the cable runs right under two CIMs and we have not been having any issues.

besides, i thought flat cables were supposed to be more crosstalk resistant than other types.
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