EZ-RJ45 Pass-Through Cat6 Plug, Solid or Stranded, Cable OD to 6.98 mm, Packs of 50/100/500 (PLG-EZ45-C6U)

This is a pass-through RJ45 plug for solid or stranded Cat6 cable with a jacket up to 6.98 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. It's the patented EZ-RJ45 design: one clear polycarbonate piece, no load bar, no insert, no liner, with 50 µin gold-plated contacts for 23 and 24 AWG conductors insulated up to 0.040 in (1.016 mm). Because the plug pulls down over the jacket and seats against it, the untwisted length between the last twist and the contacts is as short as it can be, which is where a Cat6 termination's performance is won or lost. It meets Cat6 performance per ANSI/TIA-568-B.2, it's UL listed, FCC compliant, and RoHS, and it comes in packs of 50, 100, and 500. For a standard-crimp Cat6 plug, the PLG-R45-CAT6I; for shielded cable, the PLG-R45-CAT6-ESE pass-through.

Features

• Pass-through. Conductors extend out the front of the plug so the wiring order is verified before the crimp.
• For solid or stranded Cat6, 23 to 24 AWG. Cable OD up to 6.98 mm; conductor insulation up to 0.040 in (1.016 mm).
• One-piece design. No bars, inserts, or liners; clear polycarbonate housing.
• Seats over the jacket. Shortens the untwisted length between the pairs and the contacts.
• 50 µin gold-plated contacts. 8P8C.
• Cat6 performance per ANSI/TIA-568-B.2. UL listed, FCC compliant, RoHS.
• Packs of 50, 100, and 500.

Where It Fits

It suits structured cabling crews terminating a building's worth of Cat6 to plugs and wanting every one checked before it's committed, data center and network techs making patch cords to length and tired of cutting off plugs with two conductors swapped, AV, security, and access-point installers who put a plug on the end of a horizontal run in the ceiling and can't afford a second trip up the ladder, anyone who learned to crimp on a standard plug and wants the step where the order is confirmed to happen before the crimp instead of after, and a job that already has the bulk Cat6, an EZ-RJ45 pass-through crimp tool, the boots, and the keystone jacks from the copper collections. For the boot, the BOT-R45-58 for cable up to 6.0 mm or the BOT-R45-68 for cable up to 6.8 mm; for the jacks at the other end of the cord, the KEY6-90; for a standard-crimp plug with an alignment insert, the PLG-R45-CAT6I; for shielded cable, the PLG-R45-CAT6-ESE.

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 closes the contacts but leaves the ends sticking out, where they short against each other or the jack. Check the face after every crimp and make sure no copper stands proud. Measure the cable before ordering: this plug is for 23 and 24 AWG conductors insulated to 1.016 mm or less and a jacket up to 6.98 mm, which covers most Cat6 patch and bulk cable, but thick-insulated 23 AWG Cat6 can run over that and won't feed through, and 28 AWG slim cable is too thin to hold. Strip the jacket, untwist only as much as it takes to lay the eight conductors flat in T568B order, feed them through until the jacket is inside the plug's rear, confirm the order on the far side, then crimp; the plug seating on the jacket is what gives it strain relief and keeps the untwist short, so don't strip long and leave bare pairs behind the plug. The boot goes on the cable before the plug, not after. The housing has no shield shell, so this is for unshielded cable; shielded cable needs a shielded pass-through plug. Pack of 500 is the one for a crew that terminates all day, and a pass-through plug's scrap rate is low enough that a 500 pack lasts longer than the same count of standard plugs.

Specifications

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