Thin Co-axial cable?

Django x2 · 6 Jul 2010 at 19:56

I've seen thin (even flat) co-axial cable but not enough to get from one side of my room to the other (for my freesat).

If I put it under the carpet, I don't want to feel it, so if I can't get flat, I need super thin diameter and roughly 20m length.

Can you guys help?

Someone also mentioned I could use the phone sockets to carry the signal......is this possible?

geuben · 6 Jul 2010 at 19:57

We have some thin stuff at work, not sure where from but we buy most stuff from farnel or RS.

AtaRo · 7 Jul 2010 at 10:23

I have seen very thin rf co-ax cable around 2mm-3mm diameter from wirebonders but I doubt you can
easily find them around maybe try calling farnel or RS as geuben said.

Syngress · 7 Jul 2010 at 23:02

You might get away with using a coax cable called BT3002... it's thin, but then finding an F type connector for the end might prove to be difficult....

whitecrook · 7 Jul 2010 at 23:07

running cables under carpets is a bad idea. don't do it. run the cable around the room or over the room, or under the floorboards.

BunnyKillBot · 8 Jul 2010 at 09:09

whitecrook said:
running cables under carpets is a bad idea. don't do it. run the cable around the room or over the room, or under the floorboards.

Why? In my student days i ran cables under the carpets, out the window and through the walls

lucid · 8 Jul 2010 at 10:29

Syngress said:
You might get away with using a coax cable called BT3002... it's thin, but then finding an F type connector for the end might prove to be difficult....

I use quite a bit of BT3002 for audio and subwoofer cable runs. AFAIK you can't use this for satellite though. It doesn't have the bandwidth.

whitecrook · 8 Jul 2010 at 17:51

BunnyKillBot said:
Why? In my student days i ran cables under the carpets, out the window and through the walls

It will damage the carpet.
Damage the cable (it will wear away, I've seen it)
If you need to replace it or change it or reroute it it's a major job - you have to empty the whole room
It looks ugly as sin
Absolutely do not run power cables under the carpet, some aren't rated for being insulated in that way and can overheat.
Heels and sharp objects can damage the cable
Wearing away a power cable can causes a short and then a fire and all that follows obviously.

It's a lazy, bodge, dangerous solution. Have a bit of professionalism about yourself..

You can get cable trunking for floors if you must, it's like the thing they use for traffic light cable at road works, it's basically a flat tunnel that lays on the floor and you run cables through.

Westyfield2 · 8 Jul 2010 at 19:33

I'd go under the floorboards personally, not just under the carpet, and use WF100.

scoobyrichuk · 9 Jul 2010 at 10:53

whitecrook said:
It will damage the carpet.
Damage the cable (it will wear away, I've seen it)
If you need to replace it or change it or reroute it it's a major job - you have to empty the whole room
It looks ugly as sin
Absolutely do not run power cables under the carpet, some aren't rated for being insulated in that way and can overheat.
Heels and sharp objects can damage the cable
Wearing away a power cable can causes a short and then a fire and all that follows obviously.

It's a lazy, bodge, dangerous solution. Have a bit of professionalism about yourself..

You can get cable trunking for floors if you must, it's like the thing they use for traffic light cable at road works, it's basically a flat tunnel that lays on the floor and you run cables through.

Good advice, as a BT engineer I see cables run under carpets causing faults on lines reguarly, it's really bad practise to run any cables under a carpet. Under floorboards, through the walls or surface mounted is the only sensible way to go IMO...