hi this is Jim with cable supply calm and today we're going to talk about how to punch down a 12 port sixty-six type data patch panel these little patch panels are really nice this that happens being ICC but we sell other brands and what is this it's a little patch panel that sits on a sixty-six block standoff bracket and these are great if you're only going to pull maybe five or six cables or up to twelve these little patch panels are inexpensive they're rated at cat 5e or you can even get them cat six and they're just as reliable as the patch panels that bolt to the data racks so this is what it looks like and of course a little white place where you can write down you know the the Jack number when you number the jacks and it's made out of metal and your standard circuit boards are here and your standard 110 punch down is here also what I do is when this is attached to the back board is I first hook it in backwards upside down so I can punch down and what I'm going to do is I'm going to punch down this one right here even though it says number 12 I'm going to punch that one because it's closest to the camera so first thing I have to do is I have to take my scissors and again these scissors or scissors that are used in cabling these are cabling scissors they're not your normal scissors you use you know to cut paper with and you pull down a little bit that's more than enough that's actually too much I went too far and you want to cut off yes XS along with the string and you also want to cut off the excess cable and the reason you cut off this excess cable is as you are cutting off the outer covering of the cable you most likely have caused dings to the copper in the pair's and you don't want to do that so it's only an inch or two a cable you you're cutting off the you'll just want to be safe and get a portion of the cable that does that had not been nicked by the scissors and if you use wire cutters it's going to Nick the cable so that's why you want to pull back a little bit because it can cause problems when it's time to punch down now you want to keep your twist as tight as possible and you want to keep your your outer covering of the of the cable as tight as you can to the punch down but once you get all the colors in the proper place and you can color follow the color code that's right underneath it once you get all the colors in the right place and you push them all down then it's time to punch them down and this is called punch down tool it has a blade that pushes it down and at the same time cuts off the excess and you see the excess being cut off to the run here and then when you're all done one of the things you do is you just take it out and you flip it over like that of course you want to test these things yeah you should use a tester to make sure that it's you know one end of the tester goes to the jack the other end goes to the port here and you just test to make sure that it meets all the I Triple E standards of course it has to be under 100 meters and if you're using cat 5e cable you can use cat 6 jacks and you can also use cat6 patch panels but it's always going to be a cat 5e install so if you use a cat 6 cable and use cat 5e X and cat by the patch panel it's going to be a cat 5e install if you want a cat 6 install you have to use all your components have to be rated at category 6 so this is how you punch down a simple 66 type a data 12 port patch panel thank you for watching our video if you have any questions don't hesitate to email us and our website is cable supply.com have a great day ok now we're going to strip the cable we're going to cut off the string that's used to take off the outer cover and then we're going to cut off the excess now when you're patching when you're cutting it with punching down a cable what you want to do is you want to keep the twist as much as possible all the way up to the punch down and you want to follow the color code that's printed right on the cable let me show you before we punch down what it looks like this is before you punch down and of course you're going to have all the cables going in there so that that's the way you want it and notice that the twists are kept as tight as possible up into the punch down now I'm going to punch it down but punch it down it's going to cut the excess off and do the excess be left by the cutter and there you go and that's how you punch down a patch panel you want to keep this as short as possible no longer than inch and you want your twists on your individual cables as tight as possible all the way up to the punch down you see the orange pair right there how tight that is I'm going to keep that as tight as possible all the way up to the punch down so what you also want to do is when this is all done this is up on a on your data rack bold it to data rack when you're all done you want to tie all the cables together using tie wraps you know of course they will go all along here distributed to each area there so you want to tighten them down as tight as you can with tie wraps or without indenting wire so you don't want to overdo it but once you do all that then you want to test your cables using a cable certified cable tester that can certify the cables I hope this answered your questions concerning how to punch down a patch panel and don't hesitate to email if you have any questions or if or even to visit our website if you have any questions and the website is WWE will supply com thank you