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William Sommerwerck William Sommerwerck is offline
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Default Coax cable used for DC instrumentation

5mV is down in the range of microphones and phono pickups. I would not run
such a signal through 35' of coax.

You need a balanced system -- like a mice cable -- where the shield does not
carry the signal.