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One of my coworkers has one that works perfect every time, mine works pretty good but I have to work the wires up and down a time or to after I crimp to get them to break off. I'm an AV tech with a large AV company and I use this tool a lot. It's the kind of thing you get used to and can do pretty quickly but it can be annoying. It's an industry standard now for professionals. The only problem is that some crimps are better than others. My team had one tool that we had to send back because it consistently wouldn't crimp pins 5 and 6, I know of other people that have had to send them back also.So in summary the Platinum brand tools are pretty good, in my experience about 1 in 5 needs to be sent back if you're going to be using it on a daily or weekly basis. Hope this helps.
Nevertheless, this tool makes creating Cat5 cable easier, if just for color verification before crimping. However, it does work with my Linksys, Intel and Netgear equipment.
As a result, eight tiny stumps are left behind. The Platinum Tools-EZ-RJPRO Crimper does not cut the protruding wires flush with the Cat6 or Cat5 EZ-RJ45 Connectors.
Any Cat5 or Cat6 cable made by this tool, with its accompanying RJ45 connectors, will not click into place on those ports. On some routers, like my Zyxel p-330w, the ports are designed to fit the profile of a RJ45 connector perfectly.
Those eight stumps interfere with that profile. Perhaps an Xacto Knife will finish the job.
If those cuts were flush with the EZ-RJ45 Connectors, it would have earned a solid five stars.
Simple, and brilliant. Although they are more expensive than others, they save the money by making sure that the connectors are wired correctly the first time. We used this crimper and connectors when re-wiring our office to current specs (CAT5E and 6). Note, the difference in the CAT5/5E connectors and the CAT6 is that the CAT6 have room for the rounded cable with the plastic "+" wire pair separator in the center. Not only that, but you also save all that time testing out the cables when they don't work. You simply push the wires through and you can visually inspect the wires to make sure they are in the right order, BEFORE you crimp on the connector. You won't be able to use the CAT5/5E on CAT6 wire, because the wire won't fit in the connector. Likewise, CAT5/5E wire will be loose in the CAT6 connector - so, you'll need both connectors if using both wire types - but the crimper will crimp both, and also RJ11.The built-in stripper is better used for flat (phone) cable - so get yourself a cheap grey round CAT5/6 stripper for a few bucks at Lowes - only go one revolution around the cable, then bend the cable to snap the jacket - that way you don't nick the wires inside.
As long as you have the RJ45ez terminators this is one of the best crimpers I've ever used. Very easy to use and makes miss-crimps almost a thing of the past. Only flaw is that the built in stripper is made for flat wire, fine for RJ11, but I'm thinking this is going to be used more on RJ45. Take a round wire stripper or knife with you.
Excellent product. I use it often, with the EZ-45 connectors, and it makes the job so much easier, less time consuming, and more accurate.
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