well hey everyone today i want to show you how to use the neutrik ethercon cable connector carrier
this one particularly is called the ne8mx-b now this is really useful in pro audio to take your
regular category cables your regular ethernet cables and make them more rugged and more able
to be locked into things so it's a fairly simple build but sometimes it's still really good to see
people walk through it so you see what you're getting into and what's really nice these are
the more updated version of this connector the old ones were a little bit more tricky they've
actually simplified these and they're really nice to work with so this is the one that's made for
pre-assembled ethernet cables so in this case this one was already made previously you don't
have to terminate this after the fact if you don't know how to make ethernet cables just check out my
video i have made previously so this connector carrier will work with either your standard rj45
or your special rj45 now the vast majority of what i've ever worked with was just that standard
rj45 but either way this will work so i'm going to show you the different parts here
there's four main parts and one has kind of two different versions
so we have the bushing the chuck there's two versions of the boot and then the housing
to start with you need to take your cable and if it has a snagless boot you'll need to
remove that so if this is a terminated cable or it's like through a wall or something like that
you'll have to grab a pair of snips and then cut that off in my case this other end isn't
terminated so i'm just going to just pull it off it can be a bit stiff there you go
and then first thing it's fairly simple you're going to slide the bushing over top of that and
of course it's made for pre-assembled so it'll slide just over then you have to decide which
of the boots you want to use now these are made this these ones are made for
a thinner version of the cable and these have never worked well for me especially if i ever use
cat6 for cat5 they can work i'm going to quickly test it on this cable the way that works is you
put it on you clamp it over top and then you put it around and actually in this case this one will
work so that's what i'm going to use if you use cat6 or thicker cables then you'd have to use
this this boot here and see it's only in half so what you got to do is slide it together
this is because it's pre-assembled and then you just got to slide these two
you see those kind of grooves there and on both sides you slide that together
and that becomes your boot i'm going to take that apart for now
i'm going to use the other one so this could be put on later
so i thought i'll do because it's probably going to slide around now
and then you have your chuck you could put that on later quite if i put that on now just don't forget
about it and this will become very important in just a second all right so once you have the
chuck on you've got to figure out to make sure if you have the standard or special rj45 and that'll
determine how the chuck is actually directed one thing they say is they want you to break this
the uh the tab off and you know what sometimes i like to reuse these cables for other purposes so i
like to keep the tab on in case i want to take it apart and i've done a bunch of these and the tab
not being taken off has never caused a problem so this will work just fine so in this case
this is the way this one mounts just slide that tab underneath that little part there
and you'll see how it fits just on top of there see how it sits nice and straight inside of there
that goes on the that part should be pretty clear there you go take the housing and then
you got to figure out how to slide it in you see there's a bigger bigger opening where the
tab would go just going to slide that in that should slide in nice and gentle that should come
at least a slight bit behind the entrance there let me just focus that up for you
there we go and you see how it's not sticking out past the edge that's really
actually important so then now all you gotta do is put together your
boot assembly so that's this is fairly simple you just clamp that together
and then there's this little clicks in
and then just put it all together slide the bushing forward tighten that down
there you have it now what you'll want to do is actually try this on something
that has an ethercon female connector and once the wall doesn't want to sit
in exactly right so what i recommend in that case is just loosen the housing a bit click
it into your device and then re-tighten it and i'll make sure it's in there nice and straight
all right so this is a fairly simple build but i know it's nice to see it get done
and hopefully that helps you up alright God bless take care