I found some bad RJ-45 connectors I installed over the past few months. They are Platinum Ezex44 passthrough connectors. I am using a Platinum tools crimper.
I was smoothing out the 8 wires, getting them in the right order by color, trimming the end so it was straight across, then pushing the wires into the connector assuming if the wires were smoothed out and arranged in the right order they would go into the RJ-45 properly. But some of the wires did not end up properly in the RJ-45 connector.
I was finding out using my Fluke cable verifier. If there was an issue then I wasted the RJ-45 connector which are about $2 each.
So now I have enhanced my process to double check the wires sticking out of the passthrough RJ45 to make sure everything is proper before crimping.
Any other suggestions?
I was smoothing out the 8 wires, getting them in the right order by color, trimming the end so it was straight across, then pushing the wires into the connector assuming if the wires were smoothed out and arranged in the right order they would go into the RJ-45 properly. But some of the wires did not end up properly in the RJ-45 connector.
I was finding out using my Fluke cable verifier. If there was an issue then I wasted the RJ-45 connector which are about $2 each.
So now I have enhanced my process to double check the wires sticking out of the passthrough RJ45 to make sure everything is proper before crimping.
Any other suggestions?