On Sunday 15 June 2014 08:16:45 Erik Christiansen did opine And Gene did reply: > On 15.06.14 06:49, Gene Heskett wrote: > > > On Sunday 15 June 2014 05:03:14 Erik Christiansen did opine > > > > And Gene did reply: > > > > I soldered on & sealed up in goop, the 2 cables yesterday, and had > > figured on chucking up the other end & putting about 2 turns an inch > > into it before I start on the assembly. > > That'll do it ... without sacrificing a patch cord. > > > > A cat5 > > > patch cord might be sacrificed, if long enough. If there's an RJ45 > > > socket in the junk box, then one plug could perhaps stay. > > > > > > Erik > > > > Is that patch cord stranded wire? > > Yes. I just put the transparent end of the connector body under the > magnifier, and I see a bunch of (thickish) strands in each IDC slot. > I don't think that IDC is in any way reliant on single strand > conductors - e.g. take the ribbon cable IDC we've all used for years.
The RJ45's I have used, quite a few in fact, all had a contact scheme that looked to damaging to a stranded cables smaller individual wires. Perhaps not, but thats the impression it left me with. The IDC I'm familiar with, have had to dis a few and move the connector to once again get good contact. > > > I've not seen any cat5 that wasn't solid. The crimp integrity > > depends on it. And no RJ45's in the junk box either. > > It sounds like you've solved it with the DIY twisted pair. That was all > I was recommending. Not everyone has spare patch cords cluttering up > the place, ripe for repurposing. > > Erik Anyway, first on the agenda today is firing up the rider & doing the back yard. I am beginning to need a corn knife to get around. ;-) Cheers, Gene Heskett -- "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) Genes Web page <http://geneslinuxbox.net:6309/gene> US V Castleman, SCOTUS, Mar 2014 is grounds for Impeaching SCOTUS ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ HPCC Systems Open Source Big Data Platform from LexisNexis Risk Solutions Find What Matters Most in Your Big Data with HPCC Systems Open Source. Fast. Scalable. Simple. Ideal for Dirty Data. Leverages Graph Analysis for Fast Processing & Easy Data Exploration http://p.sf.net/sfu/hpccsystems _______________________________________________ Emc-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/emc-users
