electronicsRepairing a broken cable using TDR
A good power cord is worth its length in gold, or at least in copper. Because almost no-one is prepared to pay a decent price for a product anymore, the quality of the humble power extension cord is not what it used to be. Cheap plastics make for a stiff cable and using aluminium instead of copper makes it ever stiffer again. So when my old extention cord broke, I knew that there was only on thing I could do: I had to try to repair it by saving as much length as I possibly could.
2021-05-11
How to measure distance to fault in a cable using time domain reflectometry
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