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Will post up some photos etc later today when I get a chance.

Did you get a chance to do this?

Strange I never got a reply from Pheasant

In reply to a post by PCJM40:

In reply to a post by PCJM40:

In reply to a post by Pheasant:

Will post up some photos etc later today when I get a chance.

Did you get a chance to do this?

Strange I never got a reply from Pheasant

Huge apologies for the 7 month delay! I’ve been on self imposed forums ‘sabbatical’ 😂

Here are some photos of the UI patch leads in situ and in my carry/storage box. As you can hopefully see they are very flexible and supple (ooh matron!). Honestly they are easily the most workable patch leads I’ve ever had the pleasure to use.

They will happily pass 10GbaseT ethernet traffic all day long and handle UPoE+ powered devices with aplomb. I’m using them with new Ubiquiti U7 Pro Max access points and here with a Cisco C9300X 48-port 10G switch with UPOE - more on those later.

Patching into Ethernet switches

Patch panels

Storage Box / opened

Edited by Pheasant (Sun 20-Oct-24 01:11:52)

The boots are longer than I thought on them. I recently used a load of low-profile Excel Cat6 patch cables on an install and was very happy.

https://mayflex.com/shop/product/100-516

They are indeed, but I actually quite like that.

The boots are designed to be bent into shape too. So you can mould the boot into the direction you want - ideally before you plug it into the RJ, so as not to put undue strain on contacts etc.

The fs.com 'thin' patch leads I have to say in comparison are horrible. So I'm definitely not getting any more.

FS prices have also it appears gone up, certainly on some of their actives/pluggables in recent times. I'm trialling some transceivers from FiberMall. They feel a bit hungrier and keen to please, kind of like FS.com were 5-10 years ago...😎

Edited by Pheasant (Sun 20-Oct-24 11:37:07)

I've been using them too and as you say boots are mouldable. I have one installed with a 60W PoE supply from Injector to Fibre Interface which then goes to power a PoE Switch and devices, not using all the power but everything there is happy.

The gripe still stands that the sizes are limited to 0.1, 0.3, 1, 2, 3, 5 & 8 metre. They need to add in 0.2, 0.5 & 0.8 - I have quite a few links where 0.1 is not quite enough and using 0.3s leaves a big ball of cables.