[PLUG] cat 5E patch cable

[Tomas Kuchta]

I literally stumbled on internally broken wire - 13mm (1/2" for readers in
Zimbabwe) from the cable end. Somehow it connected when clamping the ends
together to measure them. Thankfully, there was enough difference when
measuring wire pair capacitance from the broken end.

The wire strand got cut by the cable jacket cutter - part of my fancy
crumpling tool. The cable runs at 1Gb/s as it should.

Well, it is likely the most expensive patch cable I had ever owned - hand
crafted and individually tested!

And it is probably one jeti foot too short the next time I need to use it.

Probably one of the most painful ways to waste Sunday afternoon. Actually,
that is an exacerbation,  accidentally listening to the WH breefing for the
second time was way more painful this afternoon.

I recommend All Classical to avoid other media morbid obsession in milking
every little Covid bad news over and over.

-T

On Sun, Mar 22, 2020, 16:03 Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Mar 2020, Russell Senior wrote:
>
> > I would really like a time domain reflectometer so that when I screw up a
> > crimp I can tell which end I screwed up.
>
> They're rather pricey for occasional use. Sigh.
>
> > ... then cut off the worst looking end retry the crimp until either
> > it works or I run out of cable.
>
> In my case I'd add when my fingers start cramping and don't want to hold
> the
> wires in the right order.
>
> Rich
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