:-) Glad to hear the woodworking went well for you! Too bad you
don't live around here, I could have actually repaid one of my many
debts to you and helped out!
Chris
--- In Electronics_101@..., "Stefan Trethan"
<stefan_trethan@...> wrote:
The printers are on a lan printserver. But i was thinking about
getting a
LPT from the PC to the electronics bench for micro programming. It
works
fine with 2 extensions right across the room, but i'm not sure it
would be
OK to make a permanent cable that would need to take a longer way.
Not
really a problem.
Serial is great in terms of cable length, no problems there. But i
really
didn't expect USB to be acting up with only a few meters more.
BTW i'm writing to you from the electronics bench! Still the 15"
screen
but the keyboard and mouse are wired up and the drawer for them
is
installed under the table. The woodworking went better than
expected,
managed to follow a straight line with the jigsaw by wearing a
faceshield
which allowed me to actually see where i'm going close up.
Anyway, learnt my lesson today about cable length. I used to use
just
about anything for just about any signals (including unshielded
telephone
wire to make a VGA cable!), but this was the first time that it
would
actually just not work at all.
ST
On Sat, 29 Apr 2006 22:36:52 +0200, lcdpublishing
<lcdpublishing@...> wrote:
To get around all that, I have all of my printers that are not
on my
desk (3 on the desk) connected to lan. Those printers are on a
different level in the building so running parallel cables was no
option at all. Serial wasn't an option either - 1 is a color
laser,
1 is a high-speed duplexing laser, and the other is the ink jet
plotter. The two lasers require a substantial amount of data
transfer.
Chris
