> -----Original Message-----
> From: Robert Foxworth [mailto:rfoxwor1@tampabay.rr.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2002 12:10 PM
> To: slug@nks.net
> Subject: Re: [SLUG] Continuing firewall/router difficulties-corrected
> text
>
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> Maybe it is time to get a STM-8 (Siemon Company, Watertown CT 06795)
> This will check continuity for straight and crossover for various schemes
> such as EIA T568A, T568B, Token Ring etc, and identify various
crossed-pair
> situations. Also identify pairs in multi-wire drops.
I have a continuity tester, it saves a LOT of time and agony.
>
> If you crimp your own wires, (1) use an Amp tool. Spend the money and get
> one. There is no substitute (2) remember that there are separate connector
Yes, indeed, that is the only way to go. The cheap ones soon show just
exactly what they are.
> models for solid and stranded (the way the blade pierces the wire during
the
> crimp cycle is different) and (3) you will have better luck overall in
keeping
> the wires straight when placing into the plug body when using solid wire.
I found out about the connectors the hard way, but at least it was not
a critical place.
> If you break that many, then IMO you're either crimping them badly so they
> fall out (see item 1) or your users are incredibly sloppy and careless. I
> always use solid and have 100% success during crimp and have no problems
> afterwards.
These are sales people, I do not think I need to say more. But at
times I think they use them to tie one another up at night and practice
S&M.
There were a couple of them that would ask me to go with them on
sales trips to talk about radio, but I think it was so I would set
up the demo and they would not have to touch it. They were the
group that gave the least problems.
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