Shielding camera signal cable

[bloodhound31]

Does anyone here have any practical experience in shielding the signal cable from your CCD camera to your PC?:shrug:

The proximity of my signal cable to power and power cables is avoidable to some extent, but to get it away completely is impractical and results in cables everywhere.

If I could harness all my cables together as one, but shield them from each other, I could make it a lot tidier.

The problem with signal cable running too close to power is that the EMI (Electromagnetic Interference) creates horrible artifacts on the images.

Baz.

[Tandum]

I have never had this problem yet I have all cables bundled together and run at least 2 usb cameras back to the PC via a hub on the mount. You're not running AC to the mount are you?

In a pinch I guess you could get some braided cable to go around the cameras USB cable and earth it at one end.

[Insane Climber]

I have found that keeping the usb cable as short as possible makes the biggest difference, I even built a table to get the PC up closer to the cam. I have also noticed that if the PC power supply is not sufficient the usb signal suffers allot, i recently moved to a 750W supply and got a big difference.