If I am understanding you correctly, your suggestion is to terminate the cables with RJ-45 connectors (male) and have twice as many jacks (or more) on the board to allow the patch cables.....hummm, it may be a solution, the only problem is that each pair in the cat-5 cable may go to different parts of the circuit. This would probably mean that for every RJ-45 jack, I would need 4 RJ-11 jacks (one for each pair). I will have to go over the pros and cons on this one with the customer. The only problem I see, is that it puts the complexity of configuration to the person changing the patch cables (not good) instead of the installer who would punch down the appropriate wires from each cable to the correct jacks. Obviously finding a PCB mountable 110 connecting block would solve all of my problems. Thanks, but Still searching for now... David. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan B. Pearce" To: Sent: Tuesday, October 17, 2000 12:16 PM Subject: Re: [OT]:Can't find part anywhere! > I need to terminate multiple pairs of wires (~16). They will be connected > to RJ11 & RJ45 jacks which will be used to allow the customer to rewire > connections using short patch cords. Unfortunately, they do not want to use > a separate patch panel. can the customer not deal with RJ45 connectors on the PCB? It would make it more reliable in the long run IMHO than having a punchdown block. It would mean a lot less hand wiring. -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! use mailto:listserv@mitvma.mit.edu?body=T%20PICList%20DIGEST -- http://www.piclist.com#nomail Going offline? Don't AutoReply us! use mailto:listserv@mitvma.mit.edu?body=SET%20PICList%20DIGEST