Can Stranded Cat5e cable be used inside rj45 keystone jacks?

[kehi]

Please lmk. Thanks and take care

 

[amdskip]

I would think it would be just fine but I believe that they recommend using solid in the inwall installations, etc. IIRC.

 

[rectifire]

Stranded cat5(e) is not recommended for use on punchdown keystone blocks. I am not saying that you can't make it work if you have to, but most cat5(e) keystone jack manufacturers do not design their keystone jacks for stranded cable.
For in the wall/ceiling runs of cat5(e) that will not be exposed to excessive flexing, solid cable is the norm. This is because solid cat5(e) is cheaper and has slightly better data transmission characteristics than stranded cable.


Stranded Cat5(e) cable is meant to be used in situations where the cable needs to be flexible. Patch cords are the best example of this. Solid cable would not stand up to the abuse that a patch cord can take, so patch cords are made out of stranded wire.
In contrast to the keystone jacks above, the actual RJ45 jacks that go on each end of a patch cable tend to work better with stranded cable. Again, this is not to say that you can't make it work with solid cable (I have done this myself when necessary.)

Anyways, hope this helps. Good luck!

 

[ScottMac]

The performance of solid conductor UTP is MUCH better than stranded.

The punchdown connectors will not retain a stranded conductor worth a damn. Second to that is that the stranded conductors don't stand up the the actual punch and frequenty break within the insulation (so it looks punched, but there's actually no connection).

In the world of structured cabling, it would be a "Bad Thing."

Good Luck

Scott

 

[rw120555]

I'm not sure what stranded versus solid cable is. But anyway, I took a patch cable, took the clip off one end, and connected it to a punchdown keystone rj45 block. It seems to work fine, but I'm getting the impression that was a bad idea?

 

[amdskip]

Originally posted by: rw120555
I'm not sure what stranded versus solid cable is. But anyway, I took a patch cable, took the clip off one end, and connected it to a punchdown keystone rj45 block. It seems to work fine, but I'm getting the impression that was a bad idea?

A solid cable has just one solid wire for each of the 8 conductors in a cat 5 wire. A stranded has multiple wires stranded together to make 1 conductor for each of the 8 conductors in a cat 5.

 

[Diaonic]

So are there cat5e keystone jacks or are you suppose to use a different type of cable in the walls?

 

[JackMDS]

Keystones are keystone is was build for solid core wires.

In the wall you use solid core CAT5e.

Using stranded in keystone is like putting Regular Lead Gas in a Ferrari.

If you got stuck with hundreds of feet of stranded bite the bullet, it is not the EOL. These things are sold to day for less then $50 per 1000'.

 

[MichaelD]

Originally posted by: JackMDS
Keystones are keystone is was build for solid core wires.

In the wall you use solid core CAT5e.

Using stranded in keystone is like putting Regular Lead Gas in a Ferrari.

If you got stuck with hundreds of feet of stranded byte the bullet, it is not the EOL. These things are sold to day for less then $50 1000'.

JackMDS is absolutely right. Home Depot has a 1000-foot roll of Cat5e solid core for $49.99. I've found it on the net for about $10 less, but by the time you add in shipping on a 20-pound box, it's cheaper to buy it at HD.