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Connectors for swappable control panels
wee beastie:
I didn't use a patch panel. They sell the plastic boxes at telco stores that have a faceplate that can hold 6 ethernet jacks. So, I just used one of the black plastic boxes with that faceplate. Nice and cheap. Didn't feel like shelling out the cash for a patch panel.
edit: I reread your last post. Yes, I used the 110 box and had a faceplate that could hold six jacks.
MinerAl:
The only thing I'd worry about with using RJ-45 would be my dumb as$ would keep putting the wrong connectors in the wrong sockets. Do you color code them or something?
mahuti:
The only problem I have with ethernet cable is the small size of the wiring. I may be wrong, but it seems like the guage on that stuff was about 24 ga. if I recall correctly. Generally everybody seems to prefer 18 for grounds and 20 for wiring connections.
Hoe:
24 is fine. I believe most telephone wire uses 26guage, which you'll be fine with, too. Using 24+guage seems to be such taboo around here.
pmc:
--- Quote from: mahuti on June 02, 2003, 09:10:21 pm ---The only problem I have with ethernet cable is the small size of the wiring. I may be wrong, but it seems like the guage on that stuff was about 24 ga. if I recall correctly. Generally everybody seems to prefer 18 for grounds and 20 for wiring connections.
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Can't be worse than the SCSI ribbon cable I've been working with. Must be 26 or higher. One or two strands broken off is significant. Stripping it is tricky. At least cat-5 cable is solid core, thicker, easy to get tons of, and very easy to work with. You could even pick up a handful of Ethernet patch cables with the connectors already in place -- I threw away a dozen of them last night! If I do this again, I'll use telco cable instead of messing with 24 gauge stranded mounting wire and the SCSI ribbon cable. Hell, I might even redo all of this work right now. I wish I'd thought of this before. I had assumed that people were using lighter gauge wire because of some electrical requirement.