How to lay out "adapters" (devices / equipment items)

[Mark Aceto]

I have a scenario where I'll be running a SDI snake for the first 50' of a cable run:

• HDMI to DP dongle out of rack
• DP jumper
• DP to SDI converter
• 4K-SDI 50'
• SDI to HDMI converter
• HDMI 50' to equipment device

 

First of all, this was neither my choice nor recommendation. Nevertheless, I need to plot and report accurate cable lengths but I'm not sure how to place an equipment item inline along a cable path.

Could I fake it with a DA? Could I pass through a Rack / Connector Panel? Some other equipment item?

 

 

[Nikolay Zhelyazkov]

Hello @Mark Aceto,

 

You cannot insert equipment items between cable paths. What you can do is to insert a device in the schematic that splits the schematic circuit, create an equipment item for that device and then connect it to the cable route network using a drop point.

 

Hope that helps.

 

Best Regards,

Nikolay Zhelyazkov

[Conrad Preen]

@Nikolay Zhelyazkov Mark is potentially chaining adapters here... just for us to consider...