So my wife's job in a super small town is getting more cameras from another branch that shut down. Their maintenance technician cut the attached network cables and the company they use to hook the cameras up said the 1 inch end isn't what they can work with. I know they are POE RJ-45. Anyone know the which version of RJ-45 that i can use to re-terminate the cables on the punch down block on the motherboard? If I swap out the cables, the business will have them install it other wise they miss out on having extra cameras. Looking online im only seeing "RJ45 10 Base T/100 Base T male end network cable POE"
Helping out my wife's job repairing some cameras...AXIS M3006-V
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FWIW, I wouldn't pay him a compliment by calling him a "maintenance technician"....I think "unemployed person" would be more fitting.
Yeah I definitely agree, seeing the pinout diagram is awesome, that makes it sooo much easier. searching amazon I see my old crimping and punch down tools from 20 years ago are so antiquated lol. time to upgrade. I planned on running some cat cables for my new to me house anyways. Thanks again for the replies.FWIW, I wouldn't pay him a compliment by calling him a "maintenance technician"....I think "unemployed person" would be more fitting.
In case your brain is as foggy as mine of stuff from 20 years ago, here's the pin numbers of a male RJ-45. Of course should you elect to punch the existing pigtail down to a female keystone, both colors assigned to T-568A and T-568B are printed on the keystone.
Most new (and improved) crimpers also have it printed on the side of the tool.
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Me too but at least it had an impressive, heavy duty clamp to relieve any mechanical stress on those insulation displacement contacts.
ok so I got started after my spool and pass through RJ45 ends arrived (man those are awesome) and immediately realized that a 66 or 110 punch down tool is completely gigantic to the amount of room to punch down the new 2m wires I am providing. Anyone have an idea on the terminology for the smaller punch down tool? I tried pressing with my smallest flat head a little and even that felt too large so I didnt "press" it further lol. I tried "mini", and "micro" punch down tool but that didnt help.
I'm seeing on Vivint posts elsewhere that they recommend tiny needle nose pliers and a small flat head to push theirs in or to use a plastic tip punch down tool but they say that vivant uses proprietary tools.
If all else fails and the IDC loses its sharpness, width and won't reliably pierce the insulation any more you could (as a last resort) pull the wires out of the IDC, strip insulation on the cable about 1/4", double each one back on itself to make a loop, squeeze the loop flat to 1/8", tin the loop with 60/40 solder, quickly solder each loop to the empty IDC. 
thanks, I am going to give it a try found it on amazon same brand but with a new tool to hold the blade. that definitely looks a lot smaller. I can definitely see that they only pushed it into the block and then cut the ends manually.
s h i t! that's a great fall back ideaIf all else fails and the IDC loses its sharpness, width and won't reliably pierce the insulation any more you could (as a last resort) pull the wires out of the IDC, strip insulation on the cable about 1/4", double each one back on itself to make a loop, squeeze the loop flat to 1/8", tin the loop with 60/40 solder, quickly solder each loop to the empty IDC.
