Hi guys,
I'm having to replace a water damaged rj45 poe connector on a hiki camera and was wondering how best to proceed. I've seen @fenderman @nayr and @alastairstevenson help a lot with discovering pinout, but is there a consensus on which style end it would best to terminate with? Initially, I wanted to replace with a keystone jack as it's easier/requires less parts, but I found my camera used stranded thin cable on the poe line and was concerned it wouldn't hold up as normally solid core wire is used when punching keystone jacks. Although it adds another weak link, would it better to terminate by crimping a male RJ45 since it's built with stranded wire (similar to a patch cable) and use a coupler? Only downside I could imagine is that more noise on the line since there are more links in the chain, but being modular would allow you to just pop off coupler if it went faulty. Thanks in advance
I'm having to replace a water damaged rj45 poe connector on a hiki camera and was wondering how best to proceed. I've seen @fenderman @nayr and @alastairstevenson help a lot with discovering pinout, but is there a consensus on which style end it would best to terminate with? Initially, I wanted to replace with a keystone jack as it's easier/requires less parts, but I found my camera used stranded thin cable on the poe line and was concerned it wouldn't hold up as normally solid core wire is used when punching keystone jacks. Although it adds another weak link, would it better to terminate by crimping a male RJ45 since it's built with stranded wire (similar to a patch cable) and use a coupler? Only downside I could imagine is that more noise on the line since there are more links in the chain, but being modular would allow you to just pop off coupler if it went faulty. Thanks in advance
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