1. Place the release liner backing face-up; then peel away one-third of the width for the entire length of the shield. Hold flat to working surface with a temporary piece of low tack tape. 2. Place the cable onto the exposed adhesive. 3. Remove the rest of the liner backing, and roll the cable onto the rest of the exposed adhesive providing about .375” (9,5mm) overlap.

TECHNICAL INFORMATION

Cable shields should be terminated by way of full circumferential contact with the inside of the conductive connector shield. This termination should never be done by way of a drain wire to a connector pin, or by way of a pigtail wire from the shield to the enclosure. Either method subordinates to the (example) 20nH per inch inductance of a (typical) one-inch wire and the resultant inadequate impedance of only 40 ohms @ 300MHz.

Avoid locating cables, shielded or otherwise, near seams or slots in the enclosure. RF radiation from such an aperture occurs due to its slot antenna effect and, because of its short distance, will couple to the shield (or cable) and re-radiate from there. This is a very common occurrence, and it defeats the purpose of the shielding effort.

Cable shields must be properly terminated at both ends. Avoid braided shields (leak between individual braids) and metalized mylar type (form a leaky spiral slot when wrapped on a cable). They all leak through the obvious discontinuation in their surfaces especially when applied to sensitive (antenna-like) cable configurations.