Cat5 patch connections

It can help you speed up the process of performing fiber network maintenance work and avoid excessive network downtime. A stripping tool is an essential part in the process of wiring Cat5e patch panel. FS supplies a wide variety of cable strippers, including wire stripping knife tool, multifunctional network cable stripper, and diagonal cutting plier, which are all at a very competitive price to help you get the job done right.

Cable tester is a tool to test whether a cable or wire is set up properly, connected to the appropriate source points, and if the communication strength between the source and destination is strong enough to serve its intended purpose.

The product shown below can measure network capacity up to 10 Gig via frequency based measurements, it can also install and troubleshoot PoE devices via Switch Negotiation and PoE Load test. Punch down tool is a small hand tool used by telecommunication and network technicians. It is used for inserting the wire into insulation-displacement connectors on the punch down blocks, patch panels, keystone modules, and surface mount boxes.

The Cat5e patch panels should have style insulation displacement connectors. It is necessary to acquire enough patch connectors on the patch panels to accommodate all of the incoming Ethernet cables.

You should use the cable strippers to remove approximately 1 inch 25mm of the outer jacket from the end of each cable, which ensures a nice clean fit into the patch panel without the risk of exposing too much cable and damaging it. Once the outer jacket has been removed, you will see 4 twisted pairs of wires a total of 8 wires inside the Ethernet cable.

The wires are color coded with 4 being solid colors, and 4 with a white stripe around the color. In order to successfully punch down the cables into the patch panel, you need to gently untwist the pairs and spread them out so that the 8 wires can be individually worked work with. Place all 8 wires into the style connector of the patch panel in the patch panel outlet that is used to receive the incoming cables. RG45 stands for Registered Jack No. Tag: cable , cat5 , cat6 , crimp , ethernet , LAN , rj Remember Me.

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Trim off any nylon strands or wire guides. Straighten the wires. Push the assembly into the connector with a slight wiggling motion to make the ends of the wires go all the way to the end of the connector.

It may be necessary to use moderately firm pushing to make this happen. At this point it is advisable to use a magnifying glass or jeweler's loop to look directly into the face of the connector to see that the wires have gone all the way in.

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It is very important to be sure that the plug that you use matches the conductor type. It is extremely difficult to tell the difference between the two by looking at them. When you buy these plugs, be sure to categorize, and store them carefully.

Using the wrong type can cause intermittent problems. The one exception to this rule is when crimping on RJ plugs. It would be impossible to insert the wires into the channels without first untwisting and straightening them. Be sure not to extend the un-twisting, past the skin point. First try giving each end another crimp. In the B figure below, only the middle 2 wires match the middle 2 wires in the RJ figure. We will then identify each cable by plugging in a wire tester to each cable.

If both cable types are wired to the same standard, testing will be easier with less re-crimping. Another benefit is a cable can later be changed from phone to network or vice versa or to both with less confusion and work in keeping the colors correct. The drawback is most off-the-shelf equipment is wired to the B standard.

The Leviton jacks have a pin designation for both the A and B standards. However, the CAT-5 patch panel that we will use to distribute the phone service is usually marked for one standard or the other. A simple solution is to use paint pens and recolor the posts on the patch panel. Finding a A patch panel will be more difficult, but having a patch panel that is marked in the same standard that you are wiring is worth the hassle. Phone cables are logically "crossed".

A pin on one end of a crossed cable does not lead to the same pin on the other end. Instead, it leads to it's mirror opposite on the other end. When you hold the two ends of a phone cable in the same direction, one is wired in the reverse sequence of the other see Figure 1 above.

This is not the same as a " cross-over " cable for direct computer-to-computer connections as discussed below. Figure 1 above and the table on the right show where a pin on one end of a crossed cable leads to on the other end.

The same concept also applies to phone cables with only 4 or 2 wires. Note that the concept only applies to male-male cords and female-female couplings phone cables. For male-female cables splitters and extensions the cable is not crossed but is logically 'straight' as described below. Network and ISDN cables are logically "straight". A pin on one end of a straight cable always leads to the same pin on the other end. When you hold the two ends of a network cable in the same direction, both are wired in the same sequence see Figure 2 above.

Figure 2 above and the table on the left show where a pin on one end of a straight cable leads to on the other end. Network and ISDN cables are logically straight whether they have same-gender or opposite-gender ends. To further add to the confusion, a logically crossed cable can physically lay flat looking very straight when put on a table with the hook underneath at both ends see Figure 1 above. A logically straight cable must be physically twisted degrees looking very crossed to lay on a table with the hook underneath at both ends see Figure 2 above.

The good news is that the phone wiring discussed in this site will deal entirely with logically straight cables. We will use RJ connectors male on the end in the wiring closet and wall jacks female on the other, so the cables can be thought of as 'extensions'.

So why bring all this up you ask? Just in the name of completeness.