cliff park Posted January 14, 2015 Share Posted January 14, 2015 No, before you all respond this is not about using scart leads as connectors. This is about cannibalising scart leads. I was searching my secondary storage areas (ok loft and garage) for something and kept coming across scart leads no longer needed. They seem to have been superseded by HDMI and Bluetooth. So I went to throw them out then thought, hang on, what's inside them. And it's very interesting. The 20 pins of the plugs were all connected on most of the leads, but not all. All the leads were a metre long, (do they even make any other length?). First of all, all the wires are muticore 7/0.1, and various colours. 3 of them were single wires. There were 6 single screened cables, and one screened cable with 4 cores. So, the limitations, 1 metre max, and the wire size precludes any kind of high current. But they would be good for lighting, especially LEDs, and obviously the screened cables could be good for sound, and maybe servo control leads. (somebody on here recently was having problems with interference) The 4 way screened struck me as very useful for building lighting, 4 different lights/rooms, and use the screen for the common return. Most of the wiring we do is short length within rolling stock, around baseboards, control panels etc, and if, like me you were only going to throw them out anyway...... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Premium TheQ Posted January 14, 2015 RMweb Premium Share Posted January 14, 2015 I agree with using the cables but from my experience the plugs themselves are only good for the bin. I like something a lot more secure. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
DCB Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 I bought a Scart cable from Poundland as a source of thin wire and it is great on 12 volts DC for motor wiring etc. However used with NiMh rechargable cells a piece glowed red hot and melted a loco body, so basically if you use DCC I would not touch the stuff with a barge pole but for DC and low powered transformers powering LEDs these wires are great. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
RMweb Gold Oldddudders Posted January 15, 2015 RMweb Gold Share Posted January 15, 2015 SCART deserved an award for being the worst-designed product of its generation. The plugs would fall out of the socket if you sneezed near them. Any other use of the cable sounds like a victory for imaginative recycling. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crosland Posted January 15, 2015 Share Posted January 15, 2015 Parallel printer and mouse cables, showing my age , are also good for harvesting the inner conductors. Andrew Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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