CAT5 Tester, Remote Tester

Here are a few images during the construction of the remote tester unit.

Starts out like this...

Added an RJ45 socket, and circuit board mounts.  This RJ45 socket did not have a shield.  So I made one from a piece of aluminum from a soda can.  I made paper template of the shield then cut one and installed it.

Heres a pic of the leds in place to determine final location.

 

At this point the unit is working but the top cover needs to be modified for final use.

Taped up and ready to cut.

Cover removed, almost finished.

Here is the completed remote.

Completed remote.

Here is a video of a standard CAT5 cable

 

Here is a video of a shielded CAT5 cable

Altoids Tin Project: Cat 5 cable tester version 2

Here is the schematic for version 2 of the tester.

Here are some pictures of the completed Main Unit

67' Mercury Cougar - incandescent to LED conversion

 

Replaced most of the interior lighting bulbs with LED modules.  The LED modules were custom made by myself.  I re-used the bulb style bases and put in each an LED and resistor taylored to the voltage and polarity of the lighting circuits.

Altoids Tin Project: Cat 5 cable tester version 1

This is the schematic used for this CAT5 tester 

Here are some pictures of the completed tester and remote unit...

Main Unit

Remote Unit