Din rail terminal blocks for data/telco cables

[JosephandAmber]

Anyone know if you can get din rail terminal blocks for joining data/telco cables?

 

[Pete999]

Anyone know if you can get din rail terminal blocks for joining data/telco cables?

You could always route the cables to a suitable JB and make your connection there, in my opinion joints within trunking is a no no

 

[rsgaz]

If you just need an enclosure to wall mount, then one of these is how you join multipair telephone cable...

301 100 Pair Connection Box | Connection Boxes

This 301 Boxcon is designed to accept up to 10x 237A disconnection strips (not supplied).The base is fitted with an earthing strip and cable

www.cablemonkey.co.uk

Then you click in Krone 237A strips (bought separately, as are the label holders).
Krone "highband" modules do exist for jointing data cable, which also fit that enclosure, but I would never use them. "Disconnection" strips don't sound a good idea with modern ethernet speeds.

 

[Zerax]

Can you give us a highlevel view of the problem that you're trying to solve ? What sort of data cables ? How many of them ? Environment details etc etc...

 

[telectrix]

i use the gel filled crimps and try and cram 50 of them in a little box with 20 yards of surplus wires, so it looks like BT have done it.

 

[plugsandsparks]

Where i have needed to joint data cables in a panel, din rail style, i have simply used ferrules on the data cable and standard terminal blocks, this has worked for RS 422, RS 485, KNX TP1.

I have not used this method for 1000Base-T ethernet and above , these have always been direct point to point connections, e.g. patch panel to data jack outet.

What is the actual application ?

 

[pc1966]

As above, for high speed stuff like Ethernet you really have to preserve the cable impedance so any joins should be avoided, and if necessary (e.g. patch pannel, bulkhead, etc) then use type rated for CAT-5e or CAT-6 as required by the system design.