"Tony Morgan" wrote in message
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In message , Steve
writes
On Fri, 18 Feb 2005 21:30:17 +0000, Tony Morgan
[1] Capacity in this context is not bandwidth but coulombs (farads).

No Tony that's Capacitance

"corlioni1976" wrote in message
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Hi All

I bought a fire wire card and cable for about £25 the other week and when
I
connect my camera to me computer the connection is intermediate. When,
for
instance the light to my room is turned on the connection drops out or if
there is other electrical noise then the connection drops out.

does this sound like the cable is not shielded? Should it be shielded?

Thanks

naveed

Hi Guys

I found that the firewire cable was too long. It was about 1.5m long, but
then I cut the cable and shortened it to about 20cm. (Sellotaped the
wires). Now it works great and doesn't drop the connection.

Thanks for all your help.

Naveed

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 07:43:46 -0000, "corlioni1976"
wrote:


I found that the firewire cable was too long. It was about 1.5m long, but
then I cut the cable and shortened it to about 20cm. (Sellotaped the
wires). Now it works great and doesn't drop the connection.

Chewing gum would be better :-)

Hi Guys

I found that the firewire cable was too long. It was about 1.5m long, but
then I cut the cable and shortened it to about 20cm. (Sellotaped the
wires). Now it works great and doesn't drop the connection.

Thanks for all your help.

Naveed

Sounds like the cable was actually broken in the bit you cut out.
Firewire should be fine upto 5m and many people use it at 20m without too
many problems.
I think it was more like a faulty cable than it being too long, but I'm glad
it's now working :-)