CAT 5 REPLACMENT CABLING FOR BELDON 9504
1 INTRODUCTION
Historically the Standard Cable for interconnection of EDP equipment has been the Beldon
9504
standard.
2 REPLACEMENT
CABLE
There
is a CAT 5 cable, Category 5 Enhanced FTP 4 Pair Patch Cable; which does have a
similar specification to the Beldon 9504 cable.
3 This Category 5 Enhanced FTP 4 Pair Patch Cable can be used instead of the Beldon 9504.
4 COLOURS
The major
difference is the colour coding, and the following table should be used as a conversion.
EDP will
not be reissuing the complete Cable Specifications with the revised colours.
Existing Beldon colours New CAT 5 colours
Red Orange
Black paired with Red White / Orange
Blue Blue
Black paired with Blue White / Blue
Green Green
Black paired with Green White / Green
White Brown
Black paired with White White / Brown
5 CATEGORY 5
ENHANCED FTP 4 PAIR PATCH CABLE SPECIFICATION
Overall
size
5.7mm
Conductors
7/ 0.18mm
Characteristic Impedance
100W
Resistance
110W /km
Capacitance
per m
56pF
Attenuation
per 100m @ 1MHz 3.2dB
6 Only CAT 5 cable of a similar specification may be used.