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December 20, 2016, 3:56pm
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The adapter should be easy to find......
As to the remote monitor, lol you could do what I did in the new barn and that was buy a 75' VGA cable and run it up the wall, over the ceiling (in the rafters), and down inside the wall, then out to where the remote monitor is works like a charm... :)
To kinda' follow with my previous blog post about our pole barn I thought some of you might like to see a little of our progress with making it a enjoyable work space, in my world that includes internet, music and video access here's the progress so far.
Back in the spring after the building was up and the contractor had signed off we dug a trench between it and our existing shop that my wife uses for here graphics business, this building houses our servers that provide file storage, hosting, and media storage. Since we don't have cable TV and rely on a mix of the internet services like Hulu and Netflix, we also have a FreeNas media server that provides us access to movies, TV, and music. Anyway the trench was to run water, gas, and network access into the new building.
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The Barn houses a Netgear 24 port POE switch that handles power and data transfer for cameras in our CCTV system and network/internet access. (yeah, next on my list is to make a permanent place for the switch and do cable management before closing up the wall)
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We originally used a old Emachines computer running Fedora (Linux) to access our resources but it was lacking in performance for the plans I had.....
We started out using a old 15" monitor, then switched to a 32" TV......that worked out great but again the old Emachine computer just didn't have enough video to drive the bigger screen and display the montage view from our CCTV system.
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So black Friday came around and the deals were good enough for me to get out my credit card and order some parts.... 1. From Target a Element 50" 1080p HDTV 2. From NewEgg a Asrock AM3+ MB and a AMD 6300 CPU 3. Misc parts, wall mount for the Element, a new swivel mount for the 32" TV, a 75' VGA cable to run from PC to second TV across the building. (that's up the wall, over in the ceiling, down the other wall...lol)
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So Element was first to show up, un-boxed it and tested for dead pixels and general functionality.…
You might want to be aware that different cable types have different use-able lengths before the signal goes to shit, I really wanted to use HDMI but the use-able length is about 50' I really need 75' to even be close and DVI is even less than HDMI so VGA it was.
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