chigbie   595 pts.  |   Mar 8 2005  10:46AM GMT

If you go to <a href="http://www.siemon.com" title="http://www.siemon. " target="_blank">www.siemon.com</a> there is an instructional video on shielded terminations! That should fix you right up.

DrillO   0 pts.  |   Mar 8 2005  10:56AM GMT

I find myself wondering why you are using shielded cable.
I would suggest that a specific crimper would be required. I have installed miles of CAT5/5E/6 wire and have never used shielded cable. All installations are still working perfectly and they are in a broad range of environments. I Googled for it and didn’t find anything helpful. I would sugget that there might be some info available from a manufacturer……better yet, if it isn’t a long run, buy a premade cable. This will offer a much better termination quality and could save trouble if a home made cable isn’t exact.

Good luck
Paul

larrythethird   0 pts.  |   Mar 9 2005  11:11AM GMT

I also wonder why the shielded cable. Is there a really good reason for not using regular CAT 5? Unless there is serious RF interference at your site, you should not need to bother with the shielding.

Bridgeman   25 pts.  |   Mar 9 2005  11:19AM GMT

The cabling is running in a Aluminium Foundry and will be used to transmit data from machines within the foundry.
We have a lot of High voltage cables and machines and I am going to use shielded cable to make sure that none of these interfere with the data

Thanks for all your help I have managed to get my first cable wired up and it works

DrillO   0 pts.  |   Mar 9 2005  11:56AM GMT

Sounds like a great environment for shielded cable. Well done on the first one working, and good luck

Paul