Wall socket plate cutting?

Terak

Terak

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Hey guys,

I recently bought a flat, and I am renovating. While I'm busy with that, I was hoping to thread a couple of cables through the flat.

Ideally what I want to run in run a network and HDMI cable from my office area to the tv area, so that I can hook up my xbox (lan cable), and output my desktop machine to the tv (HDMI).

What I was thinking, is getting a plain wall plate punched, securing the opposite side connectors into that wall, so that I can plug in a normal HDMI cable from the tv into the wall, and the same for the network. See pic below:

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Has anyone done this before? I know I can buy some of the wall plates seperately but I was wondering if anyone has managed to build their own?
 
Google laser cutters in your area, they should be able to advise you properly. Just keep the max lengths in line, I think HDMI has something like a 10 m limit.
 
Avatar said:
Google laser cutters in your area, they should be able to advise you properly. Just keep the max lengths in line, I think HDMI has something like a 10 m limit.
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Yea, anything past 10 m you are going to have trouble outputting anything 1080p. If you found a very good quality cable you could probably get away with 15 m, beyond that it gets tricky.
 
Glordit said:
Yea, anything past 10 m you are going to have trouble outputting anything 1080p. If you found a very good quality cable you could probably get away with 15 m, beyond that it gets tricky.
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Some sort of repeater system might be plausible.. Essentially just amp the signal every 10 m or so, or amp it massively where it enters the wall. But I'd rather stream over LAN to a small PC to encode to HDMI right at the output.
 
I'm not sure about HDMI... especially if there are max lenghts involved.

For Lan, what I did in my place is to just drill a hole into a blank plate. I then took the lan socket box and pasted it over the whole so the lan cable feeds directly into that and everything still looks neat. It looks about the same as what your telephone / adsl socket looks like except, there is no visible wires.

For DSTV, that will depend. If you only have one cable coming from the dish, then you can simply buy a socket already finished. Lear / Crabtree / CBI should have something like that. I think I had to solder something at the back to get it working properly though as I think the socket was meant for old-fashioned antennas.
If you have multiple cables coming down from the dish, then you'll perhaps need to buy female plugs and fix them into the plate. It shouldn't be to hard though... should only involve drilling a certain sized hole.
 
Glordit said:
Yea, anything past 10 m you are going to have trouble outputting anything 1080p. If you found a very good quality cable you could probably get away with 15 m, beyond that it gets tricky.
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Apparently the shop I went to down the road converts the HDMI signal to a network cable, which you thread through the house. The wall socket then coverts it back to an HDMI plug. So I'm not sure how that works...
 
Personally I think it looks neater to have plug there where you can connect a shorter cable from the wall to the tv. However it would take some extra effort to sort out though when compared to just having a hole for the cable.
 
Ike_009 said:
Personally I think it looks neater to have plug there where you can connect a shorter cable from the wall to the tv. However it would take some extra effort to sort out though when compared to just having a hole for the cable.
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Are you referring to my post or just stating in general?
In case of the first, it isn't simply a hole for the cable. My description of what to do might not be very clear though.
 
ViperGTI said:
Are you referring to my post or just stating in general?
In case of the first, it isn't simply a hole for the cable. My description of what to do might not be very clear though.
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I was stating in general but it was also an idea you might want to look into.
 
Terak said:
Apparently the shop I went to down the road converts the HDMI signal to a network cable, which you thread through the house. The wall socket then coverts it back to an HDMI plug. So I'm not sure how that works...
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I have this one:-
http://www.hdcabling.co.za/hdmi-ext...balun-meter-1080p-meter-720p-1080i-p-171.html
This one is new and interesting:-
http://www.hdcabling.co.za/hdmi-single-port-extender-over-cat5e-cat6-meter-1080p-720p-p-464.html

What i used, take huge care though they will try sell you cat5e, which i would advise you only get cat6.
Home appliances cause so much EMI that the cat 5 just doesnt cut it.
 
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