Can I use an HDMI cable for a control pendant?

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tombj

Joined Jul 29, 2020
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I'm putting together a pendant control for a CNC machine, and need about 14 conductors. I can get inexpensive HDMI female screw terminal breakout boards and a 6' HDMI cable would be perfect form for this application. The wires are for x/y/z axis selection, movement resolution (x1, x10, x100) and a manual pulse generator encoder with +5v,0v A and B. I'd use 24ga wires from the breakout board to the controller connector. Any reason this will not work?
 

sghioto

Joined Dec 31, 2017
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Google says cheap cables use 30 or 32. A good cable should be 26 or 28 if only a short length.
I certainly would not use a cheap cable.
Steve G
 
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