Look at that subtle off-white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even has a watermark...
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This is 16 awg silicone dual core wire with a gold ParaMax sleeve (bigger than standard Paracord). The connectors are Lemo 2B on the left and Fischer on the right. This cable is to power a 35mm film camera (ARRICAM LT) on a Steadicam (XCS).
Is there a purpose to doing this besides being a esthetically pleasing?
They’re custom cables that have to be made to order as they’re all different. Also I use silicone wires which have a high heat resistance and very flexible but any small cut can tear the coating. So it needs to be protected with a sleeve. Plus it’s easier to find your personal calbles on set when they’re color coded (steadicam operators usually come with their own custom power cables for their steadicam but then also use cables from the camera package. And I’ve lost cables when they get mistakenly returned to the rental houses.
I’d be interested in a tutorial on this. I’d love to make some cables like this for the home stereo system and AV system.
- Remove the core of your Paracord (you need 1.5x of Paracord to wire length about (depending on wire thickness)
- Sleeve the Paracord over your wire. That’s the hard part. (My trick has been to solder a length of thick magnet wire to one side of the wire and use it as a needle to guide the wire down the sleeve.
- Add all the heat shrinks and connector sleeves you need
- Solder your connectors
- Look at your cable with a smirk
- Take photos of your cables
- Post on Lemmy