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Originally Posted by DAlitz
Related -- Has anyone been successful with their own, longer cables? I'm a bit concerned about the potential for noise and signal attenuation on longer cables.
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During fall's beta test, we made our own cable to make the very very long run (on our 2015 robot) from the top of our lifter elevator down to the drive base, across the base of the chassis, and back up about a foot again to reach the driving SRX. All told I'd guess a length of roughly 7-9 ft.
Because we were on a time crunch, we made ours by sort-of sacrificing one of the baby ribbon cables for the connectors and adding length to the existing ribbon cable via individual normal small-gauge wires. This was for the power, ground, encoder a/b, and pwm signal lines for use with the new magnetic encoder. So sadly I cannot give you a definitive source for the connectors themselves.
Test results were good and we didn't experience any issues.
I will caveat in saying that we make our sensor wire runs far from any motor/power lines.
CTRE told us during beta they were planning longer cables for sale; you may want to check their site and see if they've offered them in lengths reasonable for you. If you get a good match for the connector, I am sure it will help other teams if you post affirmation here!
Good luck!