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Nortel MOH Cable

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djtt

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Aug 8, 2008
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I have been using up old scrap pieses of female 25 pair AMP cables for my installs of MICS cabinets that need MOH. Most of these are not ever going to use up the balance of extension ports on the second AMP cable so I did not want to use up an entire 25 pair AMP cable just for MOH. So I used the left over short cables I have and then splice into the MOH pair.

I am now running out of these small cables and am wondering how the rest of you do this. Is there for example a single port AMP modular plug that will let me splice into only the MOH pair. I have seen these in the past and they have a 4, 6 or 8 pair mod plug at the end but they are only tapping to the first 4,6 or 8 pairs?

Any suggestions.

Thanks!
 
I make my own , I have a amp tool that crimps one wire at a time in the plug so I have blank pugs and crimp a single pair of jumpers wires on the proper pins then out to MOH source
 
Maybe, I'm old school. But, the $16.00 for a new female amphenol is not a problem. I never have to worry about going back, and adding an extension or paging, and realizing I need to punch down a cable and block.

Adversity is Opportunity
 
well, you need to add the price of the block in if your punching down all 25 pairs

a single pair can go direct to the MOH source

Maybe I'm "old school" but why spend $25 (plus markup to customer )and labor if its not needed ?


add it when and if you need it
 
if $50 or less is going to cause you to lose the sale then pricing mey be wrong. I for one would like all ports cabled out in the event I did grow I would not have to pay for something that should have already been done at the start.

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I have to agree with tnphoneman, our install price includes all 3 Amps being punch down.
 
The Nortels we install normally have a certain pair reserved for the MOH use,but I don't rememeber off hand which it is for the MICS (When you punch down all the 25 pairs on the extension block),or if you have to program the unit as to which pair to use.
Good Luck,

Has been in the cabling business for about twenty years and is now the Sr PM for a cabling company located in the Los Angeles area.
Also a General Class Amatuer Radio Operator.
 
BTW how are new sales and service work going during this slow down in the economy for you guys?
 
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