Hi guys its Hik Guru here, in todays video I'm going to be teaching you how to put an
RJ connector on to a CAT5 or CAT6 cable. First things first lets make sure you've
got the correct tools for the job, most important is our RJ45 crimps,
these are designed for your passthrough connectors, these also double
as a cable stripper and cutter; very handy. We've got ourselves a pair of fine cut snips.
And just a couple of cable boots here which just sits on the end of the cable,
finishes it off nice and neat and also makes it easier to pull out when your cable is in a switch.
And finally an RJ45 passthrough connector.
So first things first, if you want to put a boot on make sure that you put it on
before you start cutting, slide that on there. Now grab your cable strippers, pop your cable in
through the other side I cut mine about an inch or so press down gently and start twisting away
I normally recommend about 3 to 4 times depending on what cable you've got
if you press to hard on your cable stripper you mind find it'll cut through the actual cores of
copper so you want to be gentle or adjust your blade. So then pull away at the outer sheath
we've then got plastic sheath which you're just going to unravel, pullback,
we've also got our rip cord here as well;
you're just going to grab those 2 grab your snips and cut those off just like that.
Now we're just going to separate our 4 groups of cables, so orange we'll put at the top,
brown at the bottom, green and blue. So first lets untwist our first pair of orange.
So the first is obviously white orange try and get these cables nice and straight put your finger
right in there pinch the cable and pull it out you might need to do it a couple of times just
to straighten it out a bit. Next up is white green put solid green out of the way for now.
Next we've got solid blue
followed by white blue followed by green and the last pair and that is white brown and brown.
So now you're just going to grab your first cable pull it to the second one
and do the same pull it to the third one fourth one fifth sixth seven and eight.
And then just try and twist them around just to straighten them all put them all in line
that's what it should look like try to avoid getting any twists at the bottom here
some cheaper cables will always twist but if you've got some proper cable it should all
just be nice and straight coming out of the sheath its not the end of the world though.
So now you're going to want to cut the cable around about here seeing as it is a passthrough
connector so we'll grab our trusty snips. Right so now lets grab our passthrough connector,
hold onto these copper cores just whilst you push it through just to make sure none of them
go the wrong way gently slide it in all the way and the cables should
come out of the other side and make sure that your sheath comes out to about here
make sure it's not back here as this is what grabs onto that outer sheath so now
double check your colours so we've got white orange orange, white green blue, white blue green,
white brown and brown so that's all fine so now we can grab our crimps
in we pop out the other side we can see the spare cable that will get snipped off
and we're just going to crimp it down make sure your snips are nice and sharp
and there we have our connector. Just slide on our boot back over like so
and there we have it nice and tidy just repeat the process for the other end of
the cable. If you've got any questions or need any help whatsoever just let me know
in the comments down below and I'll see you guys in the next video take care guys bye bye