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Hbiss they raised the price of the cat 3 they didn't lower the price of cat 5e and why would you only use plenum
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Actually, there is an easier way to do it on CAT5 and maintain it's cat 5 rating on a 66 block.
That's not the way we do it. Read what I said:
If you just punch down CAT5 on a 66 block the way us telecom guys do it...
We mount the blocks with 89 brackets and bring the wiring from behind the block and out the sides of the bracket. The jacket gets stripped behind the block. Each wire get laced through its slot and into the clips in the same downward direction and cut on the bottom of each clip.
The CG way you still have to untwist the pairs. You remove a minimum of jacket and keep the twist right up to the clips. They go up and down and I'll be damned if I'm going to flip the tool for each clip. That would cost them an additional $10 per cable!
-Hal
CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 65 WARNING: Some comments made by me are known to the State of California to cause irreversible brain damage and serious mental disorders leading to confinement.
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Hbiss... why would you only use plenum?
Because we almost always do commercial work. Most of our cable is run above dropped ceilings which are used for environmental air. For the few residential jobs or those not requiring a plenum listed cable it doesn't pay to go out and purchase a couple of reels of riser listed cable and keep them on the truck also.
This is also the reason we use CAT3 whenever we can. Plenum listed CAT3 is not that much more than riser listed CAT3. Plenum listed CAT5e is nearly twice the price of riser listed CAT5e.
-Hal
CALIFORNIA PROPOSITION 65 WARNING: Some comments made by me are known to the State of California to cause irreversible brain damage and serious mental disorders leading to confinement.
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