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#160107 05/23/05 01:10 AM
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Oh, almost forgot to mention this!

macmikeman;
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Sorry Scott, I misread your post. I thought it said terminate both ends, when in fact you correctly said to terminate "both" the shield and the drain. My apoligies offered.

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#160108 05/24/05 12:20 AM
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Wow, allot of debate on this! I figure I will give a little more info on the system.
Scott, this is not LON works cable. There is a LON works comm link from each genset for generator control but this serves a different function.
Here is the PLC. There is one in each generator. They all have this network card. The other end of the cables come together in a master control cabinet where they terminate in an 8 port router which I don't have info on. The router is connected to a DSL connection and has an Ethernet cable running elsewhere inside the control cabinet. I'll post a picture tomorrow.

I think Solarpowered hit the nail on the head.
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I'm thinking this is a case of the guy thinking, "Shielded is better than unshielded, so I'll specify shielded."
The engineer will never admit he speced something wrong.

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Picture 1 is at the generator end. There are 4 of these. Picture 2 is where they come together at the router in the DMC

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#160110 06/06/05 02:02 PM
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As a Computer Network Tech, this is my bread and butter.
The shielding is probably a little overkill, but why not, there is a possibility [garantee] of the Generator building up EMF noise later on.
The connector on the network card for the PLC should have a Shield ground point, Manufacturers have been requred to use one since about 1999, mostly because they can't buy the unshielded surface mount RJ-45 connectors anymore.
On the card I don't see the ground tab on the circit board, but some of them are a surface mount which I can't see.
The NetOpia router definatly has the ground tab on it. (I have not found anything new without the shilding tab in years)
That said. Here is a link to RJ-45 Crimp Terminators, http://store.pchcables.com/rjshmoplfors.html

With Ethernet the sheilding being grounded is optional (Defeates the purpose mostly) but otherwise it does shield high level EMF and Radio static.
Also they are not technically grounded. There is a large resistor in place to prevnt a true ground out and Fire hazzard.

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