Yes it's not pass through. Any idea where to get shielded passthrough connectors compatible with those CAT6A/7 cables from Fedus?
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Fedus themselves sell shielded connectors. As a matter of fact, I use their shielded pass-through connectors.
These however do not come with a ground prong/tail, but it should still be possible to ground the shielding by wrapping around the outer cable shielding such that it comes in contact with the metal part of the connector (as I have tried to show below). This took a bit of effort and I would have preferred the prong - but just cannot seem to find pass-through connectors with the ground prong/tail anywhere.
Okay, thanks. I will try to crimp 1-2 without the passthrough connectors and see how it goes, otherwise will order these.
Hope you have better luck that I did. Found it frustrating without the pass-through connectors and gave up, and had them replaced with the pass-through connectors which I had originally ordered (but without the ground tail/prong).
The wires in my CAT7 cable were stranded, though. Also, the spacers provided with the connectors were way too large for these wires.
Tried crimping today. No luck with 4 attempts. I actually did not receive the load bar (plastic spacers) with the connectors. I had searched for these connectors again today on Indiamart, got a call from Cheeku Technologies for my interest in these connectors.
I told them the reason for searching again was that the connectors I got from them weren't playing fair. Also told that I didn't receive the load bars. They are shipping me the load bars tomorrow. Let us see!
I told them the reason for searching again was that the connectors I got from them weren't playing fair. Also told that I didn't receive the load bars. They are shipping me the load bars tomorrow. Let us see!
Don't mean to discourage you, but the regular (non-passthrough) connectors were near-impossible to crimp even with the load bars. That could be because the load bars I originally received were way too big for the individual wires - at least on my CAT7 cable. Hope they fit snugly in your case.
On the other hand, I'm quite pleased with how the passthrough connectors have worked. I've so far crimped around a dozen cables, with zero failures, touch wood.
Well the load bars are free. And still a month to move into my new house. Nothing to lose
An update on this, Cheeku technologies refused to ship the load bars. So ordered from another seller, they are pretty good. Gold color plating (not sure if actually gold), has the tail clip as well as are passthrough. Had to order 100 though. Will list the remaining ones here once I am done with my work for my home.
Any idea where I can get some good CAT6A shielded keystone jacks that work well with Anchor Roma Modular plates? Most electrical stores have the CAT6 ones, and they are not playing nice with the thicker CAT7 wiring (Tried 7-8 attempts today, even after punching down well in the keystone jack, not all pairs are being detected in the network tester).
Any idea where I can get some good CAT6A shielded keystone jacks that work well with Anchor Roma Modular plates? Most electrical stores have the CAT6 ones, and they are not playing nice with the thicker CAT7 wiring (Tried 7-8 attempts today, even after punching down well in the keystone jack, not all pairs are being detected in the network tester).