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Re: Cable Colors

  • From: Joel Jaeggli
  • Date: Mon Jun 16 21:28:26 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