Copper Foil Shield Strips for Shielded RJ45 Plugs and Keystone Jacks, Conductive Adhesive, 100 Pack (FOIL-001)

The weak point in a shielded termination is the inch between where the cable's foil ends and where the plug's shell or the jack's shield begins, with a bare drain wire doing all the work. These copper foil strips close that gap: one wraps around the stripped cable over the folded-back shield and the drain wire before the connector goes on, so the shell or the jack clamps onto solid copper that's bonded to the cable shield all the way round, not onto a single wire. The foil is 0.025 mm of 99.95% copper with a conductive acrylic adhesive, conductive through its thickness, with a shielding effectiveness of 60 dB from 10 MHz to 3 GHz and a peel strength of at least 1.0 kg per 25 mm on metal, so the wrap stays put through the crimp. The strips come ten to a sheet, scored for tearing off one at a time, ten sheets to a pack for 100 terminations. They're the companion to the PLG-R45-CT6AS shielded Cat6A plug and the MIG6A-SHD, KEY6-SHD, KEY5E-SHD, and CAT8SH-KEY shielded keystone jacks.

Features

• For shielded RJ45 plugs and shielded keystone jacks. Wraps the cable shield and drain wire before the connector goes on.
• Conductive in every direction. Copper foil that conducts through its thickness (X, Y, and Z) with a conductive acrylic adhesive.
• 60 dB shielding effectiveness. 10 MHz to 3 GHz, per SJ 20524-1995.
• Stays put. Peel strength of 1.0 kg per 25 mm or better on a metal plate; rated −10 to 120 °C.
• Pre-scored sheets. 10 strips per sheet, 10 sheets per pack, 100 strips.

Where It Fits

It suits structured cabling crews terminating shielded Cat6A, Cat7, and Cat8 to shielded plugs and jacks and wanting every termination's shield bond to be the same, data center techs making shielded patch cords where the shell has to grip more than a drain wire, industrial and plant networks that shield against the VFDs and the welders and can't afford a termination that's shielded on paper only, broadcast and AV racks running Ethernet beside power and audio, anyone who has failed a shield continuity test at a plug and found the drain wire had slipped out from under the crimp, and a job that already has the shielded bulk cable, the shielded plugs and jacks, and the RJ45 crimp tool from the copper collections. For the plugs, the PLG-R45-CT6AS; for the jacks, the MIG6A-SHD, KEY6-SHD, KEY5E-SHD, and CAT8SH-KEY; for the couplers, the COU6-SHD and COU5E-SHD.

Good to Know

Strip the jacket, fold the cable's foil or braid back over the jacket, lay the drain wire along it, and wrap a strip around all of it where the plug's shell or the jack's shield clamp will land; the adhesive side goes against the cable, and the strip should overlap itself so the wrap is continuous. Then terminate as usual, with the shell or the clamp closing on the foil. The strip bonds the shield to the connector; it doesn't shield anything by itself, so a cable that isn't shielded gains nothing from it, and an unshielded jack at the other end of the link still breaks the chain. Bond the shield to ground at one end of a link only unless the two ends share a ground. The adhesive is rated for metal at 1.0 kg per 25 mm, so it holds on a cable jacket well enough for the crimp but isn't a structural wrap; the connector's strain relief still does that job. Tear strips off the sheet as needed and keep the rest on the liner, since the adhesive picks up dust and loses its grip once exposed. Keep the sheets flat and out of the heat in the truck; the foil is rated to 120 °C but the liner isn't meant to live on a dashboard.

Specifications

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