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    Broken AV and battery cables frequently - normal?

    Do you guys have similar problems with our gs and gs battery cables?

    I dont think that I treat them hard, but also not super kind. Just normal with care about where and how to transport and use them.

    The question:

    Do you guys have found any good cables to make a VIDEO cable?(I dont need audio at the moment)

    Or any other cable that is made for outdoor and constant bending and use? I could adapt it or solder rmy own plugs on - but that could make it worse. Sometimes I have found that my own solder connection plugs arnt that strong as industrila melted in connectors. But sometimes its the opposite too!

    Do you have tips on how to prevent that the cables break? Normally they break right in front of the connector, where the cable gets bend all the time.

    Hot glue could maybe help, but that gets brittle in cold conditions. I tried plasti dip, but thats not strong.

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    Between my goggles and the gs I have 3 sets of cables:

    30cm IRC adapter (3.5mm plug to Yellow/White/RED RCA) - 1.5m RCA patch cable - male to male adapters - 1m Fatshark adapter cable (RCA to 3.5mm plug).

    So it goes: GS<>3.5mm plug----RCA<>RCA-----RCA<>Adapters<>RCA-----RCA<>RCA---3.5mm plug<> Fatshark

    Complicated isnt it? And heavy and bulky too!!

    So I though I be smart and solder myself a 3.5mm to 3.5mm plug cable. 3m long. I took shielded cable we had on work and soldered the plugs on.
    This cable is also a lot more lighter than the AV cables. But it isnt working correctly. I think due to the fact that isnt 75ohm. But I m not sure what exactly that means.

    For my batterys I use silicon cable.
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    although i never had a broken cable on my gs i would like to get rid of my cable mess aswell. I like the rj45 patch cable idea which is used by trappy. I have a fatshark base which has plenty of free space inside to integrate a RJ45 plug.

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