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Crafting a Cat5e Cable Scott H. Bowers. Materials Raw Cat5e cable ~50 feet. Wire Cutter/Cable Stripper RJ-45 Crimper Ethernet tester RJ-45 terminators.

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1 Crafting a Cat5e Cable Scott H. Bowers

2 Materials Raw Cat5e cable ~50 feet. Wire Cutter/Cable Stripper RJ-45 Crimper Ethernet tester RJ-45 terminators (not shown)

3 Cutting and Stripping First I cut the end of the cable at a point that I saw fit to begin measurement. Then I perforated and stripped the PVC Jacket from the Copper twisted-pairs beneath.

4 Carefully! With the tools I had available, I had to be careful while perforating the PVC because it was possible for this tool to also cut through some of the copper strands.

5 Strands and Ordering To make a Straight Through cable I separated the pairs and readied them to be inserted into the RJ-45 terminator. The pattern is as follows: Orange-white, Orange, Green- white, Blue, Blue-white, Green, Brown-white, Brown.

6 RJ-45 Crimping. Once organized, the array of copper strands had to be channeled into the 8 slots available in the RJ-45 terminator. After being shoved into the channels the crimper is used to force the RJ-45 pins through the light PVC jacket and into contact with the copper strands.

7 Wire Testing My wire test kit did a strand-by-strand check for signal across each pair and offered me a varying noise-level for the quality of each strand’s throughput. Both cables I made (2 ft. and 4ft.) passed on their first iteration, I will chalk this up to practice and luck but definitely not skill.

8 The Final Product Now I am left with two working Cat5e cables, and enough raw cable and RJ-45 terminators to make three more custom length Ethernet cables. The usefulness of this skill always has, and always will surprise me with it’s rare need, yet perfect utility.


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