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The coaxial cable center conductor forms the pin, and cable dielectric extends up to the mating face of the connector. The design allows for low-cost construction, where cables are terminated almost exclusively with male connectors. The male connector has a center pin, and a captive nut with internal threads. The female connector has a socket for the center conductor and external threads. It has good 75 Ω impedance match for frequencies well over 1 GHz and has usable bandwidth up to several GHz.Ĭonnectors mate using a 3/8-32 UNEF thread. The F connector is an inexpensive, gendered, threaded, compression connector for radio frequency signals. In the 1970s, it became commonplace on VHF, and later UHF, television antenna connections in the United States, as coaxial cables replaced twin-lead. Winston in the early 1950s while working for Jerrold Electronics on their development of cable television. The F connector (also F-type connector) is a coaxial RF connector commonly used for 'over the air' terrestrial television, cable television and universally for satellite television and cable modems, usually with RG-6/U cable or with RG-59/U cable. There is too much variation in external jacket diameter to deem this connector system as acceptable.Hex drive (male and female) A/F 7⁄ 16 in (11 mm) Female 3⁄ 8 in (9.5 mm) external threads Male Varies by cable size I can't imagine anyone using these connectors unless they find a particular brand of cable that has the exact outside diameter needed for the external jacket. If not, I'll cut off and reterminate after buying a different manufacturer of terminator and compression tool. We'll see if the connector actually works. It's advertised as a premium product compared to the homeowner-oriented connectors that are screwed on by hand. This is a very poor product - hard to believe anyone uses it. Of course, this is not specified anywhere in the documentation, so it's hit-and-miss depending on the particular cable you buy. I conclude that the SealTite connector only works within an extremely tight tolerance for the RG jacket diameter. This slightly increased the diamter of the jacket. Result: tighter, but still easily pulled off connector.Ģ) Wrapped several turns of black electrical tape on the jacket before folding back the shields. This increased the diameter of the jacket as it is pushed into the SealTite connector. Given that the jacket size of the cable seemed to be incompatible with the SealTite connector, I tried two experiments:ġ) Folding back all four shields, instead of cutting off the foils. I have read the forums but have not encountered anyone having this problem. The SealTite connector has an opening of 0.352' (eyeballing with the micrometer in this case).Īs you can tell, I'm a newbie on this. of the cable jacket with my micrometer and it's 0.284'. I'm assuming the cable jacket diameter is a standard size and would not be the cause of this problem. I also tried applying more compression than recommended, but this did not make any difference. So, perhaps, I should not be peeling/cutting the inner foil layers but folding them back along the cable jacket. Since the O-ring doesn't seal tight enough on the cable, I'm thinking maybe more bulk is needed compared to just the bare cable jacket and the two folded back braided shields. The connector compresses but the O-ring does not clamp tight enough on the outer jacket to prevent the cable from pulling out of the connector. I inserted the cable and performed the compression. Next, I placed the connector in the compression tool, adjusted to the proper compression length per the included instructions with the tool. I was not sure if the innermost foil should be slit and removed or slit and folded back. Next, I laboriously folded back the outer shield, slit the outer foil, removed it (from reading on this forum I understand this is the correct operation to perform), then folded back the inner braid.

Compression f connector trial#

The adjustments consisted of trial and error turns of a hex screw to finely adjust the cutter knives. The tool required adjustments to perform the two strips, one for the outer jacket, and the other down to the center conductor. Phillips RG6 quad shield, part # SDW52250/17įirst, I use the stripper, with quite a bit of difficulty I might add. Paladin Tools coax stripper for RG6, RG6 quad, and RG59 #1257

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Paladin Tools SealTite Compression Cable TV 'F' connector, for RG6 and RG6 quad, part #9643

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Paladin Tools SealTite Pro #1555 compression tool

Compression f connector install#

The SealTite connectors slip right off after I install them, obviously I'm doing something wrong.