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Canare V-1.5C 3-Channel VGA Break-out Cable

"Pro Series" Precision 3-Channel cable with high-performance VGA connector and your choice of RCA or BNC connectors.  A wide variety of lengths are available and male or female genders may be selected for each connector.

The VGA-style connector is also known as HD15, HD-15, DB15, DB-15, RGBHV, R/G/B/H/V, RGB/HV, RGB (HV) RGB, and any number of other variations.  For the sake of simplicity, we will refer to them here simply as "VGA connectors".

This is a high-performance breakout cable, used to connect equipment with VGA connectors to 3-channel component video equipment or cables.  For example, one might use a short VGA-male/BNC-female break-out cable to connect a piece of equipment with a VGA connector to a matching BNC-equipped component video cable.

Longer cables can be used as a complete end to end solution.  For example, a VGA-male/RCA-male cable would be ideal for connecting a video processor to a HDTV monitor with Y/Pb/Pr RCA inputs.

Of course, this cable will not convert signal format or colorspace.  Your display device must be able to accommodate the signal from your source equipment.  We have active converters if you need them.

Canare Cable
We use Canare V5-1.5C cable for this assembly because it offer high performance is a profile that si still small enough to reasonably fit into a VGA connector. The smooth black jacket has special fillers to keep the bundle tight, reduce shift and twist, and to maintain a round shape. It has a high-quality, professional look and feel. With an outside jacket diameter of 9.2 mm (.362 in.), it is rather large, as VGA cables go, but it is also very well-behaved.  If you lay the cable out on the ground, it stays right where you put it -- there is very little curl. Notice that in the pictures, there are no ties or restraints on the coiled cable...that should give you an idea of the flexibility of this cable.

This Canare cable is lightweight and extremely flexible. It has a PVC jacket with a smooth, non-glare finish, and it stays flexible even at sub-zero temperatures! Here are some specs on the cable:

  • Outside jacket diameter, 9.2 mm (.362 in.)
  • Individual channel OD, 2.6 mm (.102 in.)
  • Low loss - less than .03 db per meter at 1 MHz, and less than .43 db even at 200 MHz!
  • Tightly woven all-copper shield with greater than 94% coverage
  • Nominal capacitance, 69 pF per meter at 1 KHz
  • Nominal impedance, 75 ohms
  • Velocity of propagation, 66%
  • Less than 2.2 nanosecond differential delay between channels

VGA Connectors
Our VGA connectors have gold-plated pins and all-metal shielded hoods.  These high-performance connectors are available in both male and female pin genders - choose at the lower right.  They can accommodate the large Canare V5-1.5C cable that we use for this assembly, and they have gold-plated contact points for reliable performance and long life.

BNC Connectors
We offer both BNC-male and BNC-female connector options for this cable assembly.  These are impedance-matched 75 Ohm connectors, which cannot be compared to low-cost data-grade 50 Ohm connectors that are found on many inexpensive cables.  Our high-performance BNC connectors have gold-plated contact points to ensure the highest possible performance and long service life.

RCA Connectors
Impedance matched RCA connectors are very rare, but maintaining the correct impedance is essential to high performance.  By maintaining a constant 75 Ohm impedance, our RCA connectors prevent ghosting, ringing, signal loss, and other artifacts associated with impedance mismatch.  Our high-performance RCA connectors feature gold-plated beryllium copper contact fingers, and gold-plated pins to ensure long life and high performance.

High-performance Breakout Setup Applications
As mentioned above, an excellent application for this type of cable would be a short VGA-male/BNC-female break-out cable (like the one pictured at the upper right) to connect a piece of equipment with a VGA connector to a  BNC-equipped component video cable.

Since BNC connectors are both electrically and mechanically superior to RCA connectors , if you do not already have component video cables to complete your breakout setup, you may want to consider a complete breakout cable setup with BNC connectors.

Either way, RCA or BNC, if you  need cables to complete your break-out setup, please check our cables page.  We offer color-coded cables separately, in any combination of BNC, RCA, or "F" type connectors, so you can have an elegant, adaptorless hook-up between just about any two pieces of equipment.  If you don't find what you need, or if you need some help, please feel free to contact us.

Why Cable Solutions?
Customer service is our first priority.  We do our best to help you find the best solutions for your particular application.  We're enthusiasts too, so we know what it's like to wait for cables to hook up new gear.  We stock all of the components needed to build all of the items listed on our site, so we are able to do something that most cable shops do not - we build and ship most orders within one business day. We also know how important it is to be able to get a response when you need help, so you'll often find us working long hours in an effort to get you the answers that you need.  It takes good people to do outstanding work...the kind of workmanship you want for your custom cables.  It usually costs more to keep good people, but the importance of high-quality workmanship is second only to the importance of  superior service.  I'll let you figure out for yourself why paying too little for a cable can turn out to be just as bad as paying too much. Our pricing is based upon the actual cost of building the cables.

Canare cable, Canare connectors, and Canare tools - an all Canare system.  When you take a system this good and put it in the hands of technicians as good as ours, it becomes an awesome system!  Design excellence, high quality materials, meticulous workmanship, and superior service...put it all together and you get a superior product.  Don't get stuck with bad advice, poor service, slow shipment or an inferior product.  If you want the best, here it is.

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Canare V5-1.5C VGA-male / BNC-male Breakout Cable - Click here for a closer look!
This photo shows a half-meter cable with VGA-male to BNC-male connector configuration, but you may select from many lengths and connector options below.


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This is an example of a half-meter VGA-male to BNC-female cable.


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Pictured here is a 1 meter cable with
VGA-male/RCA-male connectors.


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This close-up view reveals our high-quality VGA-male connector.  Notice the all-metal connector housing and gold-plated pins.  You may also choose VGA-female below


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Here is a closer look at our impedance-matched BNC-male connectors.


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In this close-up, you can see our impedance-matched BNC-female connectors.


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Here is a close look at our outstanding 75 Ohm impedance-matched RCA-male connectors. 

Notice that RCA-female connectors are not available for this particular cable, but we do offer them here.

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Length in meters (feet)
Connector on first end
Connectors on second end

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