I would like to find some split blocks like some LECs use with 16 or 20 modular jacks at the top half of the unit and 66 punch on connectors at the bottom.
A company name Reliance/Reliable something like that has them but they are backordered quite a bit.
If anyone has one or more of these in good used condition from a deinstall or MDF clean-up, please PM me. (I can clean the 66 terminals if they aren't bent up, etc...)
Thanks...
DT98
if you have a picture or a link it might help in identifying just what it is your seeking
I believe that
THIS is what you are looking for. I don't believe that anyone other than Emerson Network Power (formerly Reliable) makes them.
Several manufacturers make them with male/female 25 pair connectors on them if that will work. Siemon and Graybar's Allen Tel Products make them.
Ed,
That's IT!! That's what I'm looking for...if anyone has some that came out of a de-install or abandoned/remodel/construction MFD, let me know. I need the 16 or 20 jack unit.
Around here the LEC uses them alot...not that I'd swipe them from a LEC MFD but I have seen them removed and abandoned. Emerson stays backordered on these things and I'd like to find some OOS units.
Thanks!
DT98
I've never seen these, what would you be using them for?
I've seen full size 66M blocks with 12 modular jacks mounted into the 89B bracket (6 on a side). As I recall, a number of people made them. Is there any reason you want the one with the jacks on top?
Sam
Jeff, one use would be so that you can use X-connect to connect a KSU with RJ11/14/25 jacks as outputs. 1A3, smaller Samsung, Panasonic, Partner, etc. Patch cords from cabinet to the siemon/emerson block. Then X-connect from the 'special' block to the building cables that are on plain ol' 66 blocks. It is 1 way to make these sorts of installations stay a LOT neater. Mainly because nobody needs to move patch cables around, for MACs. John C.
I use these to (don't you all shoot me...) terminate station wire for small ACS systems. In the size of 16 to 20 stations and below. We punch the station wire down and use mod cords to jump from the mod plugs to the ACS station ports.
The reason I don't want to change is standardization. I have these in several locations but if the the manufacturer can keep the supply pipes full I may have to look at an alternative...in that case I would like one to be pre-assembled out of the box so the techs would not have to put it together which also keeps them standardized.
I used to have several of these laying around from deinstalls and phone room clean up jobs but I've used them all and they are backordered right now...bummer...
We've used them for multiple SLT ports coming out of our systems, going to an external VM system input. That way, we don't have to install 8/16/24 surface mount jacks... otherwise it gets sloppy.
They are a nice compact management tool, when used correctly and still offer an easy way to connect a test set.