Can A Hdmi Cable Be Repaired

bensmithuull

Hi,

Have broken the HDMI cable plug that went into the back of the TV when I took the TV off the wall. Running a new cablevision is not and selection due to distance and the onetime cable used to run under the flooring so I can't access it. The cablevision is fixed in places likewise, so tying a new one and pulling back is not an option either.

Please tell me in that location is a way to fix this, and someone tin do it in the Westward London Expanse?

Thanks,

Ben

noiseboy72

You can certainly buy a inexpensive 1M cable and cutting the end off. Your difficulty will be soldering the wires in situ and matching them up, equally there is no guarantee the colours will be the same.

bensmithuull

You can certainly buy a cheap 1M cable and cut the end off. Your difficulty will be soldering the wires in situ and matching them up, as there is no guarantee the colours will exist the same.

I have the same brand cables merely smaller which run from the AV receiver to various inputs. Then essentially I could snip the smaller 1 like y'all say, splice each individual wire providing the colours are the aforementioned (you think they would be if they are same cable)?

noiseboy72

You simply won't know until y'all attempt.

Deplorable, in that location is no real way to tell until you snip the terminate off

Joe Fernand

Repairing HDMI onsite is a slow/catchy procedure - if y'all have good soldering skills and a multi-meter you tin try it as a DIY projection.

Equally noiseboy72 suggests a 'donor' HDMI cable is your best choice - that way yous have two flexible ends to piece of work with.

The multi-meter is usually the best way to 'pin out' and confirm how each cable is wired.

Joe

bensmithuull

Repairing HDMI onsite is a slow/tricky process - if you take good soldering skills and a multi-meter you can try it as a DIY project.

As noiseboy72 suggests a 'donor' HDMI cable is your best selection - that fashion you lot have two flexible ends to piece of work with.

The multi-meter is usually the best way to 'pin out' and confirm how each cable is wired.

Joe

Howdy Joe,

Thanks for your response. I accept order a twin cable then just waiting for it to arrive, hopefully the colours lucifer up. The soldering should be fairly easy (he says) as there is nigh 1.five slack, and so information technology tin can be done on the floor or flat surface.

I'm not up to speed on how to use a multimeter. Is there I guide on this? I assume there needs to be some kind of loop?

PS happy to pay anyone in the London surface area if they want to come up do this for me!

andy1249

This is incredibly tricky to do.
Fifty-fifty with the best equipment and parts success rate of such repairs is only 50%.
A deviation of a tenth of a mm in length between the twisted pairs and it wont work.
You also accept to intermission the twists to enable the soldering, again a situation that tin cause it not to work.
HDMI cables are machine fabricated because of the precision required.

Your stuck, then no harm giving it a shot, merely it is a long shot and failure is more than likely than success.

bensmithuull

This is incredibly tricky to do.
Fifty-fifty with the best equipment and parts success rate of such repairs is only 50%.
A difference of a tenth of a mm in length between the twisted pairs and it wont work.
You also have to break the twists to enable the soldering, once more a state of affairs that can cause it non to work.
HDMI cables are machine fabricated because of the precision required.

Your stuck, so no harm giving it a shot, but it is a long shot and failure is more likely than success.

Hmmm I'll give it a get at least, but I am not confident of being mm accurate.

I have a cat6 socket at both the AV receiver and TV ends, so I accept a gear up as I could use HDMI over this with adaptors and bridge downstairs where the router is. Nonetheless I wanted to keep the cat6 spare at the AV receiver end for media thespian use, and the one at the TV finish I wanted to keep for a wired internet connection to the Tv set, although this isn't so important.

Is at that place any way to have the HDMI over the cat6 sockets and ship the picture to the TV from the AV receiver via this, just still maintain use of the cat6 sockets for the above mentioned purposes? Tin you have like a dual network port going into one for example and notwithstanding use the 2 features simultaneously?

Thanks,

Ben

Joe Fernand

Every bit per Andy'south notes - information technology is very difficult to get right, especially one time you kickoff to effort and laissez passer 1080p over information technology; take not had to try 2160p over a 'repaired' cablevision as yet!

Plan B - is you employ the HDMI 'cable' as a CAT cable (terminating both ends with RJ45) then utilize a set of HDBT Extenders.

Programme C - figure out how to run a CAT6 cablevision!

Joe