Cable Colors
Joel Jaeggli
joelja at bogus.com
Tue Jun 17 01:26:22 UTC 2008
Joe Greco wrote:
> Speaking of cables and veering off towards cable-making, I was wondering
> what people thought of the so-called "EZ RJ45" stuff. One of the hazards
> of doing long-term cut-to-length wiring is that if a crimp really goes
> wrong, you might mess up your artistic work or need to re-cut a new cable.
> Even having done as many cables as I've done, I occasionally have one go
> bad. The EZ stuff looks like an interesting compromise, does anyone with
> a few thousand crimps worth of experience with it have any comments?
They make a crimper specifically for it, which cuts of the ends. I
haven't done a few thousand ends with it but it does make it slightly
easier to maintain the twist further into the the plug because you can
pull it until snug.
I crimp infrequently enough that I occasionally don't get a spec cable
when using conventional connectors.
> ... JG
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