Planning VGA extension

Hopefully someone can help me out with a problem we have at work

We have a projector that we are mounting to the ceiling but need to make a vga extension for it so as to allow users to plug in there laptops, its going to be about 10meters long but we can get the cable fine only problem we have is I've never had to wire in a VGA plug

Anyone know the following;

1) How hard it is?
2) Is there any special tools needed?
3) Alternatives?
4) Online guides?


Thanks to anyone who can help

 

Just buy a ready made one they are cheap enough and will save you the hastle.

10M VGA extension

Or if you need male to male

 

thanks for you reply crapbag.. that was my initial idea but it turns out the we need to put a plate similar to this on the wall by the presenters table.



Dont really want to go buying one until I know if I'll be able to wire it up : /

 

Looking at that plate couldn't you just unscrew the connector and then screw in the one connected to the extension cable. Not sure if there would be a clearance issue at the back, it all depends where the plate would be fitted too.

 

You need something like this

Front



Rear



You could use a standard 10 metre cable with this and would be a piece of piss to fit

 

Don't you have to be careful with long vga cables as the signal degrades over the longer distance?

 

Yeah, but 10m will be fine, i used to run one in my car

 

Awesome, thanks alot guys looks like its gonna be cheaper than the £500 the projector company quoted