Assignment For Badge

[ebee]

B O F H ?

 

[securespark]

The

B@st@rd
Operator
From
Hell

 

[ban-all-sheds]

http://www.bofhcam.org/pfy/pfy05.txt

http://bofh.ch/bofh/bib.html

 

[RF Lighting]

I suppose the can be modified for a quick check on any two or more wire connectors.

Sure they can. Many of the ones sold for computer cabling use have jacks for 8P8C modular, 6P6C modular and USB, with the jacks using line 1 up to whatever the maximum number of pins is needed. But you can also get units which work the same way and have 1/4-inch or 3½mm jacks for mono and/or stereo audio leads, 3-pin XLR, etc.

But with the ones which only have 8P8C modular, you only need to make up adapter leads to whatever connectors you need.

I made up loads of adaptors for mine. When we were wiring theatres we used it for testing panels like this

It saved so much time it paid for it's self within minutes.

 

[ebee]

really useful little gadget

 

[mattylad]

Are you doing this aiming towards a badge?

I'm not sure there is an electrical plug wiring one

 

[securespark]

Nope. But there is a general DIY one.

 

[ebee]

there should be a an electrical plug wiring one icon_smile.gif

 

[ebee]

When we wired plugs in physics at school, the earth pin had a rivet through it to prevent us plugging them in.

And the Cat 5 tester works using a shed-load of diodes in the remote unit. I think it works by pulling each pin high in turn with all the others low. Each pin as a forward-bias diode to all other pins (or just some others). Probably like this:

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• ccam108
• 3 Jul 2012
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Although I would remove most of the diodes and do it like this:

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• ccam108
• 3 Jul 2012
• 1

I got one of those "thingys" £2.49 inc postage from fleabay , I am minded to open it up to see if it is indeed wired as you said (I suspect you must probably be correct ) I suppose your reduced diodes version would be almost equally effective in most practical instances.