CAT6A RJ45 Shielded ezEX44 Connector – Pass-Through with External Ground (PLG-EZ45-C6-SHD)

This is a shielded pass-through RJ45 plug for Cat6 and Cat6A cable with larger conductors, with an external ground tab. It fits shielded solid or stranded 22 to 24 AWG cable with conductors insulated to 0.039 to 0.044 in (0.99 to 1.11 mm). The eight conductors go in the back of the plug and out the front, so you check the color order by eye before the crimp tool trims them flush and closes the contacts. The channels are staggered high and low, so the larger conductors each sit in their own slot. It's the ezEX44 design in its shielded form: one clear piece, no bars or liners, a shield shell around the housing, and a ground tab on the outside that crimps onto the cable's shield and drain wire. It's rated for 10 Gigabit performance, it's RoHS 2, UL, TIA, TAA, and FCC compliant, it's made in the USA, and it comes in packs of 25, 50, and 100. For the same plug with the shield bonded inside and no external tab, the PLG-EZ45-C6-SHI; for unshielded Cat6A with the same conductor size, the PLG-EZ45-C64-POE.

Features

• Pass-through. Conductors extend out the front of the plug so the wiring order is verified before the crimp.
• Shielded, with external ground tab. The tab crimps onto the cable's shield and drain wire for a bond you can see.
• For large-conductor shielded Cat6 and Cat6A, 22 to 24 AWG. Insulation diameter 0.039 to 0.044 in (0.99 to 1.11 mm); solid or stranded.
• Staggered channels. High/low layout isolates each of the thicker conductors.
• One-piece design. No bars or liners; clear housing.
• 10 Gigabit rated. 8P8C.
• RoHS 2, UL, TIA, TAA, and FCC compliant.
• Made in the USA.
• Packs of 25, 50, and 100.

Where It Fits

It suits data center and network techs building shielded Cat6A patch cords to length for 10GBASE-T ports from bulk cable whose conductors are too fat for a standard pass-through plug, structured cabling crews terminating 22 or 23 AWG shielded Cat6A in a plant that runs S/FTP or F/UTP end to end, industrial and plant networks that shield against the VFDs and the welders, broadcast and AV racks where the Ethernet runs beside power and audio, anyone who has crimped a shielded plug and had to take it on faith that the shell found the drain wire, government and contract jobs that need TAA-compliant parts, and a job that already has the shielded bulk Cat6A, an EZ-RJ45 pass-through 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-R45-68 for cable up to 6.8 mm or the BOT-OVR-75 for cable up to 7.5 mm; for the internal-ground version, the PLG-EZ45-C6-SHI; for unshielded cable, the PLG-EZ45-C64-POE.

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, and a shielded one with an external tab needs a die that closes the tab too. A standard RJ45 tool closes the contacts but leaves the ends sticking out, where they short against each other or the jack's shield. Check the face after every crimp and make sure no copper stands proud. Measure the conductor before ordering: this plug is for 22 to 24 AWG conductors insulated to 0.99 to 1.11 mm; a conductor under that sits loose in the staggered channels and wants the PLG-EZ45-C6S, and shielded Cat6A over 1.11 mm wants the PLG-R45-CT6AS crimp plug. 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, since 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 the jacket, untwist only as much as it takes to lay the eight conductors flat in T568B order, feed them through the staggered channels until the jacket seats in the rear of the plug, confirm the order on the far side, then crimp. Staggered channels mean the conductors alternate high and low as they go in; if one won't start, it's in the wrong row, not too thick. The boot goes on the cable before the plug, not after.

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