Shielded Pass-Through RJ45 Plug for Cat6/Cat6A, 23–26 AWG, OD Under 8 mm (PLG-R45-CAT6-ESE)

This is a shielded pass-through RJ45 plug for Cat6 and Cat6A cable with large conductors. It fits solid or stranded 23 to 26 AWG cable with an insulation diameter of 1.35 to 1.45 mm and a jacket under 8.0 mm. The conductors feed through the plug and out the front, so you check the pair order by eye before the crimp tool trims them flush and closes the contacts. The channels are staggered high and low, so each of the larger conductors sits in its own slot. It's an 8P8C plug with a copper nickel alloy shield shell and an external ground tab that crimps onto the cable shield, a clear polycarbonate housing, and copper alloy contact blades plated with 50 µin of gold, rated for 1,200 mating cycles and −40 to 70 °C, and it comes in packs of 25, 50, and 100 for making shielded Cat6 and Cat6A patch cords to length. For the same cable with a standard (non-pass-through) crimp, the PLG-R45-CAT7; for shielded Cat6A with 1.05 to 1.15 mm insulation, the PLG-R45-CT6AS.

Features

• Pass-through. Conductors feed through the front of the plug so the wiring sequence is verified before the crimp trims them flush.
• For large-conductor Cat6 and Cat6A, 23 to 26 AWG. Insulated conductor 1.35 to 1.45 mm; cable jacket OD under 8.0 mm; shielded, solid or stranded.
• Staggered channels. High/low layout isolates each conductor so the larger insulation fits without crowding.
• Copper nickel alloy shield shell with external ground tab. The tab crimps onto the cable's shield and drain wire for a bond you can see.
• 8P8C, 50 µin gold-plated contacts. Copper alloy blades.
• Clear polycarbonate housing. UL94V-2.
• 1,200 mating cycles, −40 to 70 °C. 20 lb cable-to-plug tensile strength; 250 V AC at 2 A.
• Packs of 25, 50, and 100.

Where It Fits

It suits structured cabling crews terminating thick shielded Cat6 and Cat6A to plugs and wanting every termination checked before it's committed, data center and network techs building shielded patch cords to length for 10GBASE-T ports from cable whose conductors are too fat for a standard Cat6A plug, industrial and plant networks that run heavy shielded cable past the VFDs and the welders, broadcast and AV racks where the Ethernet runs beside power and audio, anyone who has crimped a standard plug on thick cable and found one conductor stopped short of its contact, and a job that already has the shielded bulk Cat6A, a pass-through RJ45 crimp tool, the FOIL-001 copper strips, and the shielded keystone jacks from the copper collections. For the jacks at the other end of the cord, the MIG6A-SHD and KEY6-SHD; for the boot, the BOT-OVR-75 for jackets up to 7.5 mm or the BOT-R45-68 for jackets up to 6.8 mm; for a standard-crimp plug on the same cable, the PLG-R45-CAT7.

Good to Know

A pass-through plug needs a pass-through crimp tool, the kind with a blade at the front of the die that shears the conductors flush with the plug face as it crimps; a standard RJ45 tool will close the contacts but leave the conductor ends sticking out, where they short against the jack's shield or each other. Check the cut after the crimp and make sure no copper stands proud of the face. Measure the cable before ordering: this plug is for 23 to 26 AWG conductors insulated to 1.35 to 1.45 mm and a jacket under 8.0 mm; most Cat6A with 1.05 to 1.15 mm insulation will sit loose in these channels and wants the PLG-R45-CT6AS instead. A shielded plug only shields if the shell is bonded to the cable's shield and the jack at the other end is shielded too, so fold the foil or braid back over the jacket, lay the drain wire along it, and crimp the external ground tab onto both; then use shielded jacks and patch panels throughout; one unshielded link in the chain turns the shield into an antenna. The tab is on the outside of the shell, so you can see the bond is made instead of trusting what happened inside the plug; a wrap of FOIL-001 copper strip under the tab gives it solid copper to crimp onto. Bond the shield at one end only unless the two ends share a ground. Strip, untwist as little as possible, feed the conductors through in T568B order, pull them taut so each pair's twist runs right up to the plug, and confirm the order on the far side before the tool closes. The boot goes on the cable before the plug, not after. Keep the bend radius generous at the plug; thick shielded cable is stiff and a sharp bend there is where the foil tears.

Specifications

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