RJ-45 panel mount plug?

This may be an item that is made inhouse for the testers that use them. It wouldn't be too hard to use a panel mount jack and make a butt-to-butt plug. Snip the clip from the user interface end, Straight or cross wire it with short snips of AWG #22 solid and glue the butts together.

Insert clip end into plug, instant (well, faster than sourcing and shipping) panel mount plug.

Parts list: 1 RJ-45 Jack 2 RJ-45 Plugs 1 short piece of Cat5e or Cat6 or AWG22 solid hookup wire. Glue or melt the butts together.

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Thank's for the glue idea. Never thought it could be made this way. Only thing is to make glued butts to look professional..

Something like this

What you might do depending on your application is go to Home Depot, find the home theater section, and find the modular panel system. I forget the brand. I installed some at home, it's a panel and you can pop in various types of connectors.

Use clear glue, and think about making a jig do do the gluing. With a jig, a sufficiently thin glue and perhaps clever use of aluminum splints in place of the cable jacket, you ought to do well.

Check out the industrial automation sites such as ABB or Rockwell. In many VFD's the keypad/display is connected to the base unit by an RJ45 back to back male/male 1 piece connector. They sell these as separate items because they occasionally break. As stated before, use panel mount jack and plug this in!

Regards, Steve

Personally, I prefer #24 wire for that app. (The stuff in those 25-pair trunks that you used to find at construction sites uses #24.)

Cheers! Rich

Not sure if this is what you could use, by fixing it in the panel and continue with a snipped patch cable inside the box:

Looks similar to these...

heres an IP6 plug

But I like the idea of gluing two male jacks together, easy replacement when worn out.

Cheers

'Keystone'

Home Depot carries the Leviton brand of networking products.

RJ-45 is only one application of the connectors. The original name was 8P8C modular connector.

Look for T-568B jacks. I think that's what you're looking for, it has RJ45 plug on one end and 110 connectors on the other.

WHY? A short jumper solves the problem better in almost all situations.

If you actually want to get technical it is a EIA-568 connector. And it is physically incompatible with RJ-45 dimensions. Try any search engine or Wikipedia for it.