The situation: I rent a place, it has network cabling installed (no conduit) and the cables from the rooms terminate in one room where I have the router etc. I ended up installing some of the wall ...

Welcome to another post in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 15 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. This ...

The CT20 is a two-part system consisting of a master continuity tester/transmitter and a two lead, bi-color (red/green) LED remote probe. The continuity tester/transmitter is used for local continuity ...

Platinum Tools, a brand of preparation, installation, hand termination, and testing solutions from NSI, is proud to announce the launch of its new PT-OTDR-100 mini OTDR tester. The PT-OTDR-100 is ...

Welcome to another in the series by Nick Locke, of Nicab Ltd, who has more than 20 years experience in the electronics manufacturing industry specialising in interconnection cable assembly. This post ...

All it takes is a kink in the cable, somebody running over it with their office chair, or a poor crimping job on one end (like leaving way too much wire untwisted) to make the cable not work. I'd ...

As semiconductor packages grow more complex, conventional continuity tests are no longer adequate for screening out open circuits and pin-to-pin shorts. Most test methods were designed for devices ...