Karl Cunningham wrote:
Here's what I do...
Grab the last 3 feet or so of cable and slide your hand along it to
stretch the outer jacket 1/2" or so beyond the end of the conductors.
Cut the jacket flush with the conductors, and when you let go it will
slide back to expose the conductors. Then grab the conductors and push
the jacket back the other way to expose more of the conductors. Cut the
conductors back a bit so if you let go the jacket would slide back over
them, but don't let it. When you're ready crimp it, the jacket will have
a tendency to easily slide into the back end of the connector and be
crimped rather than to pull back from it.
With a little practice this works nearly as fast as using a knife-type
stripper, and you never have to worry about nicking the conductors.
Karl
Get the Harris punch down tool. The Palidan(sp) or whatever has a
crappy blade that dulls quick. You don't crimp RJ45 connectors on to
the ends of cables when your doing an install. You put a patch panel
in the rack, and you use a jack plate in the wall. If you really want a
nice installation, you get a patch panel for your switch too. Then you
punch down one end of the cable to the switch panel, and the other end
has an RJ45 that goes on the switch. The cabling coming from the
building terminates in a patch panel above the switch patch panel, then
you run little 1 foot long jumpers, and your rack looks CLEAN, vs
jumpering the building patch panel to the switch with multiple 3ft plus
long patch cables.
Mark
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