RedLion DA50 - RS485 Wiring

[moistcat]

Hi All,

Hoping to get some insight into best way to terminate shielded twisted pair + common into a RJ45 required for RedLion RS485?

Multi-Pair Cable - 3106A

www.belden.com

Is best practice to run twisted pair, common & shield to terminal blocks, then hack apart an RJ45 cable to get B+ A- and Comm to the RedLion?
Then cable from shield terminal to redLion GND ? EMC Installation Guidelines 2.A

Maybe a fancy RJ45 plug that allows external sheild and 1.5mm twisted pair cables to fit?

 

[danw]

Google RJ45 terminal block adapter

 

[moistcat]

Google RJ45 terminal block adapter

Brilliant thanks that's what i was after.

 

[modiconguy]

We had some discussion about terminating ethernet cable cables (in my case sharing one cable for two network connections):

RJ45 jack splitter for 100BASE-TX

I'm connecting up two remote ethernet devices to the switch in my control panel, and I'm trying to do the cleanest install. The customer typically provides a single shielded ethernet cable terminated with a plug and the remote devices are each using half the pairs. I need to adapt the pairs back...

www.plctalk.net

It's not hard to strip the wires and land them in a terminal block, but if you want to just use complete patch cables you want something like this:

https://www.phoenixcontact.com/en-us/products/patch-panel-fl-pp-rj45-scc-2901642

Definitely watch for polarity, if I recall correctly Red Lion and Schneider Electric disagree about the meaning of A/B +/- assignment.