Remote Damper Control RJ45s

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If you didn't know what these are (as I didn't) you might be confused thinking they were part of shoddy structured data cabling system. However, as I found out (just recently) they're actually part of the HVAC system. And, mounting them in this haphazard fashion is common (as far as I can tell).
Until this encounter, I had no idea what these were. I took a video and posted it to Tiktok with #wtfisthis tag thinking someone else could help me out. Turn out a lot of other people had not seen this before either.
Fortunately, a few in-the-know commenters told me what they were.
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9 сен 2024

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Комментарии : 11

@AaronR-C 4 месяца назад

All the props for our HVAC friends and their mastery of sheet metal, liquid and vibration control, compressed gasses and hazardous substances... high current... Amazing... BUT. GUYS. If your industry is adopting technology that's been used in another for decades... maybe watch a couple of RU-vid videos. There's this thing called a PATCH PANEL and it will SAVE YOU TIME AND MONEY. I promise next time I have to cool a data closet I'll check with some HVAC gurus to make sure *I'm* not the idiot.

@NetworkAdvisor 3 месяца назад

So related to that. I saw the HVAC guys on the job site the other day and I asked them "why don't you use patch panels?" they just kind of shrugged.

@LogicalNiko 4 месяца назад

Most of these are just 3 wire controls for manually controlling dampers they to tune the balancing in a building. I've seen a bunch of them just use 1/8-in tip and 2 ring jacks and they are usually in the vicinity of the damper, although I've seen others use 4 wire telephone cable. They are usually just direct wire to a low voltage DC motor controller (9v or 12v is common). I wouldn't be surprised as RJ11 supplies are getting harder to find at supply houses, they just use Cat3 or Cat5 and RJ45 jacks. But yes if you're going to hack a panel together you might as well purchase a premade one (unless its a situation of just using the parts on the truck).

@NetworkAdvisor 3 месяца назад

Ahh, thank you for that insightful input. 👍☺

@truthreigns7 4 месяца назад

Thank you for sharing this

@tonymaile7330 3 месяца назад

they should be labelled so people know what they are so someone doesn't plug a device into them and damage equipment I have never seen this before that is probably because I'm in the UK thank you for sharing this with everyone

@NetworkAdvisor 3 месяца назад

Yes, 100%. Some one is going to plug something in there that might cause a problem.

@NetworkAdvisor 3 месяца назад

I'd not seen anything like this before either and I've been in the field o er two decades. Thanks for watching and commenting 🙂