[ARC5] RJ-45 Wire?

[Nick England]

I once bought some cheap 100’ Ethernet patch cable for TTY loop hookups.
IIRC, it was the cheapest I could find. Stranded, maybe #28 and with a
springiness and high resistance that makes me think it might be steel. Also
the pairs weren’t twisted together very tightly.  I was crimping on spade
lugs so don’t know about solderability.

It was not like the usual untinned or tinned copper stranded Ethernet patch
cable I have used in the past..
There’s all kinds of “Ethernet” cable out there. YMMV.
BTW, I think CAT5 is stranded for patch cable and solid for permanent
installation.

Nick


On Sat, Jul 6, 2019 at 8:16 PM Al Klase <ark at ar88.net> wrote:

> WB5WSV,
>
> I agree with WB4OGM.  What we're talking about here is Ethernet cable, 4
> twisted pairs, solid bare copper, about #26.   It has designations like
> CAT-5, CAT-5E, and today CAT-6.  This stuff takes solder just fine.
>
> You must have something else.
>
> Al
>
> On 7/6/2019 8:00 PM, hwhall at compuserve.com wrote:
>
> I've stripped RJ45 Ethernet cables for the small wires & haven't
> encountered any that wouldn't take solder.  Apparently it is not a
> universal problem.  I have encountered similar looking telephone cable that
> turned out to be made with "tinsel wire" - bundles of tiny foil strips
> wrapped around fibrous support strings & they didn't like solder much at
> all.
>
> Wayne
> WB4OGM
>
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>
> Cloth covered copper mesh?
>
> “In matters of style, float with the current. In matters of Principle,
> stand like a rock. “.   -   Thomas Jefferson
>
> Sent from my iPhone
>
> On Jul 6, 2019, at 6:02 PM, Robert Eleazer <releazer at earthlink.net> wrote:
>
> I replaced a failing RJ-45 cable with a new one and then took the old one
> apart.  I thought that small diameter color coded wire would be fine for a
> low voltage low current project I'm working on.
>
> But I absolutely could not get the wire to accept solder.  I know those
> connectors are crimped on, but what is the wire made out of that will not
> take soldering?
>
> Wayne
> WB5WSV
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