11-10-2023, 09:50 PM
(11-10-2023, 06:25 PM)VK3BA Wrote: Gidday all,
For anyone making their own Cat5 cables for the IC-905 to the outdoor unit, any lengths less than the supplied 5m one will result in the controller head not seeing the outdoor unit. After a few hours of chopping up Cat5 and crimping numerous RJ45's, I found that mine had to be at least 200mm longer than the original Icom cable supplied. Otherwise a couple of seconds after boot up, the control head will display an error that the outdoor unit is not responding, despite hearing the relays click. Some sort of weird Icom implementation of POE I suspect.
Cheers,
Try using cat 6A shielded with shielded rj45's. that's what is recommended.
cheers
VK8AW