Shorten a PL cable

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Seanie_230 Posted: Tue, Nov 21 2017 9:38 AM

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Hello Beoteam

I have today bought off eBay a Beolab Receiver 1 to connect to my Beolab 6000 in the corner rather than running a cable

I have an old PL cable 5 meter which is not in the best shape and want to shorten this to about 0.2 - 0.3 meters to plug into the RJ45 to 8 Pin din cable so the R1 sits next to the speaker.

Any thoughts on shortening a PL cable?

Just solder cut and solder wrapping the shield around and solder this also?

Dont want to order one when I can make one out of an old PL cable.

Sean

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pauljrog replied on Tue, Nov 21 2017 9:55 AM

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If you have a soldering iron & solder i would cut the cables and join them up.  Plus you can get small heat shrink sleeving for the cores, and a larger one for the outer shealth. Use a decorators paint removing hot air gun to shrink it in place.

Hope this helps.