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My current gig has a similar problem, with a piece of hardware that operates over USB. Cable lengths over 6m or so introduce sufficient voltage and current drop
by agentwiggles 4y ago
My current gig has a similar problem, with a piece of hardware that operates over USB. Cable lengths over 6m or so introduce sufficient voltage and current drop to cause intermittent issues with the sensor (which are really tough to troubleshoot if you don't already know about this).
The solution has been to use fiber optic hubs with the same behavior you describe - copper cables on either end to connect the hardware to the computing unit and a long run of fiber in the middle to make up the required length.
Pretty cool stuff!
- tragictrash 4y agoIt's probably not voltage drop that's making your device operate incorrectly. It's most likely the added capacitance and or inductance of the wires skewing the high frequency data signal out of spec. Entirely possible it's voltage drop, I don't know the exact hardware, but at 6 meters, it's probably signal rather than power.