Putting crimp connectors on wires is one of the most tedious things you’ll do. It’s not easy, either, unless you have some practice. Before you start digging in to a pile of connectors, crimp ...

Audio and Video Cables are not just dependent on the wire or cable used, or the connectors used. The quality of the connection between the wire or cable and connector is just as important, if not more ...

Anyone have a link to a really elementary explanation of how to put RJ45 connectors onto CAT5 cable? I went out and bought a fancy-schmancy crimper especially designed for that purpose, looked up old ...

Precision crimping techniques prove crucial to the optimal performance of heat-shrink electrical connectors. A poor crimp can lead to a loose wire that draws excessive amps and overheats. A punctured ...

The RJ45 cable, also known as an Ethernet cable, is a standard cable which has four twisted pairs of colors. It is easy to crimp a RJ45 cable and make it into a straight cable or cross the cable as ...

You’ve waded through all of the connector catalogs and found the connector that meets all your design criteria and is just right for your application. It has the right current rating, voltage rating, ...

Platinum Tools’s answer: the new patented EXO crimp frame. It’s an RJ45 crimp tool that can terminate multiple sizes of cables and conductors. The crimp frame highlights two interchangeable dies that ...

A bad termination job halved my Ethernet speed to 100 Mbps ...

For some reason there’s heated debate around the topic of whether high current carrying wiring ought to use crimped or soldered connections, even though the industry standard is to crimp ...