this post was submitted on 01 Mar 2026
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[โ€“] YiddishMcSquidish@lemmy.today 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Get out! From the inductance? How long it a length of wire does it take for that to become an issue?

[โ€“] CannonFodder@lemmy.world 7 points 1 week ago

It's the wrapping of it around a ferrite core that does it. Surprisingly little can make a difference at certain clock rates. If you take a cat5 cable running 1G and loop it a dozen times in a 6" circle and put a metal screwdriver perpendicular to the loop in its center, you will see a spike in bit errors. Weaving one wire with another isn't going to be as strong of an effect, and it's fiendishly complicated in terms of an e/m problem, but it could easily be significant.