Just realized I've been crimping my RJ31X jacks wrong for years

Tbh, a whole panel in a new install in Fresno went dead last week because of a bad crimp on the main line. I was using the wrong die in my tool and didn't even know it. Anyone got a favorite brand of modular crimper that actually works for the 8P8C on alarm cable?

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taylor.william28d ago

Grab a Klein VDV226-110 if you can. The dies are marked and it actually seats the pins all the way. I've re-crimped so many jacks where the tool just didn't push the eighth pin down enough. That Fresno story sounds familiar... spent a whole afternoon once tracing a fault back to one bad connector.

wells.christopher28d ago

My old boss in Phoenix used to test every eighth pin with a jeweler's loupe.

alicer5328d ago

Yeah, that eighth pin is the worst.