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Title: Mounting a RJ45 socket help
Post by: Royal Fish on April 05, 2002, 12:12:55 pm

Hi Friends,

I want to mount a RJ45 female socket in my cab (so that I can connect by ethernet...) but all I can find is just boxes of plastic (that you cannot secure)
What I would like to find is something that you could screw to a metal panel or even wood..
Would someone please have an idea (URL ?)

Thanks VERY much ;-)

Title: Re: Mounting a RJ45 socket help
Post by: Abelard Lindsay on April 05, 2002, 12:42:44 pm

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Hi Friends,

I want to mount a RJ45 female socket in my cab (so that I can connect by ethernet...) but all I can find is just boxes of plastic (that you cannot secure)
What I would like to find is something that you could screw to a metal panel or even wood..
Would someone please have an idea (URL ?)

Thanks VERY much ;-)

Howdy!

The most elegant way (IMO) would be to cut a rectangular hole in your cab, and mount a metal electrical box (the same one you would mount a light switch or electrical outlet in) in the hole. The box would be inside your cabinet, just like it's inside your wall as in a light switch. You can then snap the data jack into a faceplate which screws into (and covers the rough edge of) the electrical box on the outside. Voila!

The box and plate can be had at just about any big hardware store/electric supply for not too many bucks ($5 or so).

Good Luck!

Title: Re: Mounting a RJ45 socket help
Post by: Jonathan_the_Red on April 05, 2002, 04:38:47 pm

You can get "keystone" type faceplates that can take a number of connectors with standardized snap-in mountings. I have one of these on the back of my cabinet... see my site for a pic.

An electrical junction box like Abelard suggests is a nice touch but not really necessary... my faceplate is screwed directly into the MDF. My faceplate has connectors for Ethernet, left and right audio out, and RF video in.

Title: Re: Mounting a RJ45 socket help
Post by: ArcadEd on April 05, 2002, 04:57:30 pm

They are very easy to come by, I use them on my arcade-in-a-box.  Just head over to home depot, if you have one in your area, and look where they carry RCA cables etc.  You will see a bunch modular faceplates and modules to go in those plates.  Buy the RJ45 module and plate.  Just cut a RJ45 cable at one end, plug the jack into your NIC card, and hard wire the other end into the module plug.  Boom, there ya go :)