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Extend VGA 300-400 feet

I have a customer that wants to put a computer in a Foundry. Even with an enclosure the odds of that computer surviving is next to zero. All this computer is going to do i look at 4 cameras. No real user interaction.

My thought was to maybe put the computer in a office 300-400 feet away and somehow extending the video out to just a monitor in the Foundry. Has anyone ever done this? What method did you use?

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Devin Becker

LockDown32,

If you wanted to run 300 feet or more of VGA cable it looks like you would need a VGA Extender of some sort, or like the one here

I have never tried this, as the longest cable I've used has been 50 feet, and 300 feet is quite a distance, according to one website, it seems that at a resolution of 800x600 is only supported up to just over 100 feet or so without an extender(which use Cat5, and offer over 1000 feet runs)

I've never tried any wireless video transmissions, and definitely not at that range. But I'm sure it would be possible(and expensive).

Hopefully this helps you get what you need.

Devin Becker

LockDown32

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Thanks for the suggestions guys. I am aware you can do it via CAT5. I was really looking for someone who has done it before.....

Lee W, MVP

I've done it with Cat5 - you're not going to do it with VGA - signal loss will be too great.

Fibertron

I've done it with this manufacturer:

https://www.adder.com/en/kvm-solutions/browse-all-products?f%5B0%5D=categories%3A607&f%5B1%5D=categories%3A607

The longest distance I have done is around 200' but they claim to go up to 300m.

Lee W, MVP

To be clear, you're not going to do it with a PURE VGA cable without using some kind of extender technology.

E C

As others have mentioned, I think VGA over Ethernet is the way to go. I have used Ethernet extenders before and they work well.