Too Strip, or not to Strip, that is the question

[Cashmoney995]

So I am now the proud owner of a belkin medium duty crimper. I had gotten in on a deal a year or two ago at Radio shack with Cat 5e cable for 4 cents a foot or something crazy like that and I bought my self at least five hundred.

I was trying so hard to get this one cable to work today and I went through at least 8 heads, and it took me several hours. I would cut the jacket off the wires, then strip the wires, cordinate them and then try to slide em into the heads.

My dad came home and he's all like you don't need to strip em you can just cut off the jacket and when you crimp them it should create contact with the inner wire.

So I tried that and A) I found it took a hellluva lot less time than stripping them but, B) The cable im making with that method just isnt working.


Any input for me, the uuber crimping pimpin noob???

 

[skyking]

This is kind of harsh, but true. you are wasting your time crimping patch cables. Unless you have someone who really knows the tricks and can show you how, you will have a long struggle, and still make substandard cables. They may work, but they can work and be way out of spec too. Function is not a valid test of cabling integrity. True, it is the only one most people have available to them, but an out of spec but functioning cable can wreak havok and cause you to tear out hairs when things start to go bad for you.

I would suggest that you use the cable you bought to make static runs to keystone jacks, which are much easier to do properly. Buy your patch cables, it saves time and money.

 

[JackMDS]

I would join Skyking sentiments.

Link to: Wiring - I would like to wire my Networked Computers (Home Wiring).

:sun:

 

[imported_Paladin]

How to crimp an RJ-45:
(Since I am TeleCo, I use tia 586b. For tia 586a swap the orange and green pairs.)

Score the jacket an inch or two from the end -- do not nick inner conductors (there is a tool for this.) Break off and discard jacket.

Straighten wires and align flat:

white-orange
orange-white
white-green
blue-white
White-blue
green-white
white-brown
brown-white

Holding flat, trim ends square 3/8th inch from jacket.
Holding the plug, pins up, insert wires into the slots of the plug, taking care that you insert a single wire in each slot.
Inspect that the wires are all fully seated into the plug and have not swapped positions -- I use +3.5 diopter reading glasses in front of my reading glasses.
Crimp.
Test -- continuity at a minimum, preferably with a cat-5 cable tester.

Why you shouldn't:

I have been installing and repairing communications since 1966. I have crimped some of the cables that are being used in the 911 system. I run a 5 to 20% fail rate on my connections, depending on coffee level. TeleCo standard is that I DO NOT crimp my own patch cables.

ALL of the cables I run terminate on Panduit jacks and I use factory patch cables to connect my jacks to the equipment.