<div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Oct 14, 2009 at 9:40 PM, Dylan Hall <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:dylan@deedums.com">dylan@deedums.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On Wed, 2009-10-14 at 17:10 +1300, Douglas Pearless wrote:<br>
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Here are some examples: <br>
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<a href="http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productResults.asp?whichpage=2&pagesize=10&keywords=balun&form=KEYWORD" target="_blank">http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productResults.asp?whichpage=2&pagesize=10&keywords=balun&form=KEYWORD</a><br>
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I am using 4 of these: <a href="http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=QC3423&keywords=balun&form=KEYWORD" target="_blank">http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=QC3423&keywords=balun&form=KEYWORD</a> (I
got them a LOT cheaper than this) and as they only use 2 pairs of the 4
pairs in a cat 5 cable, I am using a cat5 combiner/splitter at each end
to map the 2 x 2 pairs for the 2 baluns to the 4 pairs in the cat 5per <a href="http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=YT6090&keywords=cat5&form=KEYWORD" target="_blank">http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=YT6090&keywords=cat5&form=KEYWORD</a> but again, I paid only a few dollars for these.<br>
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Have a hunt around DealExtreme, e.g. <a href="http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.balun" target="_blank">http://www.dealextreme.com/search.dx/search.balun</a><br>
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I've not used their baluns so I can't comment on their quality, but they're *much* more reasonably priced :)<br></div></blockquote><div><br>Definitely don't buy anything from Jaycar (or DSE) without shopping around. I used to assume Jaycar were generally good value until I noticed this power meter:<br>
<a href="http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=MS6115">http://www.jaycar.co.nz/productView.asp?ID=MS6115</a><br>$36 from Jaycar, $25 from DSE, and $20 from the Warehouse. Exact same model. That's a huge difference.<br>
<br>Cheers,<br>Steve<br></div></div>