Is there a standard color code for VGA wires?

isaacmacdonald

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If I grab two different 15 pin vga cables and cut them open, are they likely to have the same color coded wires inside?
 

AbsolutDealage

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There is no universal standard, but if you have cables by the same manufacturer you can be reasonably certain that they are the same convention.

If they are not the same manufacturer, you can easily check this with a multimeter. Just look at a VGA pinout, and use the meter to check the pin-to-wire connections (put the meter on a specific pin, and run through the cables until you come up with a connection, then jump to the next pin, etc.) Then all you have to do is use that pin-wire map to decipher the hacked-off end.

Hope this helps...
 

isaacmacdonald

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thanks, it does.

I've been waiting for a reason to buy a multimeter anyway. Saturday will be a fun day of metering/soddering. Once I've soddered everything, do I need to do something special as far as shielding goes? My initial idea is just wrapping each soddered point with electrical tape.
 

AbsolutDealage

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Electrical tape might be a little messy, it also could slip off the connection and eventually cause a short. It depends on your goal, Is this a short term or long term connection?

If it is short term, have fun with your electrical tape.

If it is long term, get yourself some heat shrink tubing to fit over the connections. It is basically thin rubber tubes that fit over wires/connections, and when you blast it with a hair dryer it shrinks around the connection securely.

BTW, if you get the shrink tubing, remember to slide the tubing onto one of the wires before you solder them together, so that you can slide the tube over the connection ;)

Edit: Please don't post in 2 different forums next time...
 

isaacmacdonald

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Edit: Please don't post in 2 different forums next time...

Thanks for the advice (tubing). I don't usually double post, but after initially posting in the tech support forum, I realized this was probably a better bet-

(shrink tubing it is!)