Does anyone know if the performance of a touch screen will be affected if I use a long VGA and serial cable? My guess is it will be about 20 feet at the most. The reason I ask is I would like to mount my touch screen on the wall and have the case as small as possible and I could but the computer with my stereo. What do you guys think?
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The quality of your video will be affected with a long VGA cable, although they do make some heavily shielded VGA cables that can go quite a distance.
Serial cables can actually span quite a distance before signal loss.
If you used heavily shielded cables you should be fine
So as long as I get a good one that is shielded the video should be fine? That's what I thought; my main concern is the serial cable and the touch screen response.
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The serial cable should go 20 feet without issues. A cat5 cable can go about 100 feet without enough loss to cause an issue, so 20 feet should not be a problem.
For the video could you not try some sort of video sender? Don't know if they make a VGA one though...
thought of that but wasn't sure of the quality and since I have to run a serial cable whats one more.
I have dealt with both very long extensions of Video signals and serial networking for over 20 years
Trust me if you get well shielded cables you will not have problems.
thanks, I will try this in a couple weeks.