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Top tip with the pass-through RJ45 ends: buy a pair of electrician’s scissors and before crimping use them to trim the conductors once passed through, then pull the cable back a millimetre so the conductor tips sit inside the connector.
This will prevent the crimping tool blade from mashing the conductor ends into each other, causing them to short.
ectoplasmosis
That's right I crimped a cable. Who wants to touch me.
Spent the better part of this evening attempting to try out the process ahead of getting it all installed this weekend (Klein pass thru connectors). Could NOT get the wires through it. Must have gone through about 50cm of cable. Eventually I tried a different connector from the same packet and it just slid straight in. Compared the two and the first connector was sealed shut. Good quality control from them...