cardosocea
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Hello,
I inherited a project where the "designer" decided to run cat6 (perhaps 7?) network cable all the way to the switch inside a Rittal paneland for termination use one of these.
If you look at the PDF, the blue boot makes the connector far thicker than a normal RJ45 and when trying to plug them on the Stratix switch the two outer ports go in at an angle instead of straight to the point that the connection doesn't work in some ports.
Additionally, because the cable is so thick and lack of space, the bend radius of the cable puts yet more pressure in the cables.
Remaking the ends with a different plug is a solution, but the problem is that I don't have much slack in the network cables to begin with, so in some cases I'll have to move over the connections and may not have space to do so.
This is bound to give me grief moving forward and as such I've decided to look at what would be my options to make the best out of a **** design.
One option I've been toying with is to replace the gland in the bottom of the panel with an Ethernet connector that will then be an RJ45 plug inside the panel that I can simply run a simple patch to.
What other options would you think would be useful and what hardware as well?
I inherited a project where the "designer" decided to run cat6 (perhaps 7?) network cable all the way to the switch inside a Rittal paneland for termination use one of these.
If you look at the PDF, the blue boot makes the connector far thicker than a normal RJ45 and when trying to plug them on the Stratix switch the two outer ports go in at an angle instead of straight to the point that the connection doesn't work in some ports.
Additionally, because the cable is so thick and lack of space, the bend radius of the cable puts yet more pressure in the cables.
Remaking the ends with a different plug is a solution, but the problem is that I don't have much slack in the network cables to begin with, so in some cases I'll have to move over the connections and may not have space to do so.
This is bound to give me grief moving forward and as such I've decided to look at what would be my options to make the best out of a **** design.
One option I've been toying with is to replace the gland in the bottom of the panel with an Ethernet connector that will then be an RJ45 plug inside the panel that I can simply run a simple patch to.
What other options would you think would be useful and what hardware as well?