Title: Force too great; broke 3 out of 8 wires on Cat5e
Product review: Like Hansel, I thought that buying Paladin would be the wiser choice in the long term. I should have been wary given that there were so few reviews on it.I have the punchdown tool on low impact setting. I'm using it to punch Cat5e cables into the keystone jack. It seems that the force is so great that a few wires broke when I punched it in. It caused me a lot of inconvenience just to troubleshoot the fault. I had to test the continuity pin by pin with a meter. I eventually isolated it to the keystone jack, and realized what caused it.I've tested the punchdown tool on 2 brands of keystone jack - monoprice and firefold. For both jacks, at least 2 of the wires would break if I punch it with the low impact setting. My cable is solid, not stranded UTP.Now, I just use this 50 bucks tool to push in the wire.
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