Ok, for those who don't know, my daughter's puppy chewed her monitor cable. IBM G94 monitor with an internal connector at the monitor end. IBM doesn't have one. Hitachi, which made the monitor says they don't have one. Here are my proposed solutions. Which is best?
1. Replace the entire cable and resolder the old internal connectors to the new cable. I've purchased 2 high grade SVGA cables. I could use one of them for this approach.
2. Keep the good half of the cable, with molded strain relief that fits nicely around the entry point of the monitor, and solder a female HD15 connector to the pins. With this solution, I can always replace the cord by simple unscrewing it from the female plug. But not real elegant looking.
3. Simply solder the two ends to the chewed cable together. In which case I'd have a big bulge in the middle of the cable, and would probably lose some shielding and maybe degrade the quality of the picture.
Which one? I wanted a new cable, but that isn't in the works and this is a pretty expensive and still fairly young monitor.
Thanks for your views.
1. Replace the entire cable and resolder the old internal connectors to the new cable. I've purchased 2 high grade SVGA cables. I could use one of them for this approach.
2. Keep the good half of the cable, with molded strain relief that fits nicely around the entry point of the monitor, and solder a female HD15 connector to the pins. With this solution, I can always replace the cord by simple unscrewing it from the female plug. But not real elegant looking.
3. Simply solder the two ends to the chewed cable together. In which case I'd have a big bulge in the middle of the cable, and would probably lose some shielding and maybe degrade the quality of the picture.
Which one? I wanted a new cable, but that isn't in the works and this is a pretty expensive and still fairly young monitor.
Thanks for your views.
