<div dir="ltr">Jules, et. al.:<div><br></div><div>FWIW: The Amphenol drawing w/details for the RJ45 that I used on the prototypes is attached. It indicates that the shield is tin coated stainless steel. Depending on the alloy it may exhibit some degree of ferromagnetism.</div><div><br></div><div>Dave</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 12:59 PM Julius Madey <<a href="mailto:hillfox@fairpoint.net">hillfox@fairpoint.net</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<font face="Arial">Tom,<br>
From a 5/4 email from Scotty explaining the design of his new
board:<br>
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"JMP6 allows us to ground one side of the shield only to minimize
noise
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pickup and ground loops. Note that the CAT5 cable is shielded.
"<br>
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If I interpreted that as a 'recommendation', my bad ...<br>
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Molex has at least one RJ shielded plug using brass .... mine were
cheap eBay stuff ... so there appears to be no problem.....just
have to order the good stuff....non ferrous metal construction is
available on both RJ45 jacks and plugs.<br>
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Jules - K2KGJ<br>
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<div>On 5/30/2020 11:45 AM, Tom McDermott
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<div>I have no idea where the idea that the shield should be
unconnected at the remote end came from. <br>
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<div>In my opinion this is contrary to what probably needs to be
done. I think Scotty put a jumper on that</div>
<div>line so it could be tried both ways. Normally one floats
a shield if ground return currents from some</div>
<div>external path are expected. I don't see where those would
come from in this situation.</div>
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<div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, May 30, 2020 at 8:31
AM Julius Madey via TangerineSDR <<a href="mailto:tangerinesdr@lists.tapr.org" target="_blank">tangerinesdr@lists.tapr.org</a>>
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<div> <font face="Arial">Dave,<br>
I hadn't either until I saw the note from Phil. I've
been using your original small adapter board with the
Quicc connectors so haven't run into the issue yet. <br>
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Two shielded RJ45 PC through hole jacks in my parts
drawer, made by BERG, have non ferrous shields.
Couldn't find the BERG part on line but DigiKey carries
several candidates. One is AMP 5558342-1, the data
sheet for which shows phosphor bronze as the shield
material. Since the shields on the RJ jacks of the
three SBC's I have are all non-ferrous, it may be that
for RJ45's, non-ferrous construction is the usual.<br>
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With regard to the shielded RJ plugs on the extension
cable, since the current recommendation seems to be to
only tie the shield to ground at the 'local' end, it's
possible to remove the shield on the plug at the remote
end; just did that with one of mine.<br>
<br>
Jules<br>
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<div dir="ltr">Jules,
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<div>This is something I had not thought about. </div>
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<div>It does appear that Belden does sell a line of
Cat 5+ connectors that have little or no metal in
them beyond the contacts:</div>
<div><a href="https://www.belden.com/products/enterprise/copper/connectors/cat-6a-jacks" target="_blank">REVConnect®
Connectivity System</a>, but these appear to be
components of a building wiring system, not board
mountable jacks. Further research is required.<br>
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<div>Dave</div>
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